Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolves quietly around human relationality, landscape, and emptiness, and an upcoming chapbook called Tramps Everywhere (Insert Press/PARROT Series). She is also a curator, most recently for Both Sides and The Center at the MAK Center/Schindler House. A recording of her story “Attached to a Self” was included in the group show A Diamond in the Mud at Literaturhaus Basel in Switzerland in 2008, and in summer 2010 her work was featured at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) as part of NOT CONTENT, a series of text projects curated by Les Figues. Writing has appeared in publications such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Dear Navigator, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, emohippus, Joyland, La Petite Zine, Little Red Leaves, MoonLit, onedit, Sidebrow, summer stock, The Encyclopedia Project (F-K), and Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, as a chaplet through Belladonna*, and is forthcoming in [out of nothing]. Several of her stories have been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS, and a French translation of “Black Wings” is just out in Jet d’encre. Her second book, a new collection of short stories, will come out with Dorothy, a publishing project, in fall 2013. She lives in Los Angeles.