ABOUT SARA MARCUS

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where I attended Riot
Grrrl meetings, wrote a zine, and joined my first punk rock band.
Since then, I've lived in a 64-person vegetarian co-op in Ohio, an
anarchist utopian community in Philadelphia, and an urban homestead in upstate New York, as well as the requisite array of Brooklyn
apartments.

I've written about music and politics for publications including Time
Out New York, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate.com, Utne Reader, The
Advocate, The Forward, Poz, and Heeb magazine, where I was politics
editor from 2002 to 2007; my poetry has appeared in Encyclopedia,
EOAGH, Tantalum, and The Art of Touring, and my catalogue essay for
sculptor Wade Kavanaugh was published in 2008.

I have an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and I
was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 2008 and 2009. I've taught
drums and keyboards at girls' rock camps in Portland and New York, I
copy edit at Artforum magazine, and I instigate communal, de-skilled
music making whenever possible.