[Suleiman]
about the author: 
Simone Kearney’s poems can be found in Post Road Magazine, Elimae, Maggy, Sal Mimeo and Supermachine. She received her MFA in poetry from Hunter College, and in 2010 she was a recipient of the Amy Awards from Poets & Writers Magazine. She works for the Thierry-Goldberg Projects gallery in the Lower East Side, and is an adjunct at Pace University. She is also a visual artist, and you can see samples of her work at http://simonekearney.blogspot.com/). She lives in Brooklyn.