j/j is the author of the full-length book asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents (BlazeVox 2008) and chapbooks poetics of merge and 'my body as your trance' (Arsonesque Press 2007), .compilate. (Livestock Editions 2008),this is what cadence is for (Dusie Press 2009) and the let me letters (soon to come out with Pudding House Publications). j/j's writing has appeared in numerous journals including MiPoesias, and the hotmetalpress Poetry prize of 2008.
j/j received a BA in poetry, music, gender and cultural studies, and an MFA in contemporary poetics.
j/j defines as Trans/genderqueer (which is different than Transgendered, though not at all discounting it). j/j is interested in the differentiated usages of the prefix Trans (when it is utilized in ways that are not at all related to previously determined models (with binary derived bases) of identity construction. j/j's life work involves embodying, inhabiting and populating the body as one would a neoteric space, through ways and methods that are not related to formerly prescribed shapes that are based in limit.
Julia Hastain aka j/j hastain
You can contact j/j at: julia_loveintention@hotmail.com
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