Photo by John Keene

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press), a collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, landscape, and emptiness, and an upcoming chapbook, Tramps Everywhere (Insert Press/PARROT Series). She is also a curator (most recently for When Does It or You Begin? Memory as Innovation, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video) and a teacher of writing/literature.  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 this summer her work was featured at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) as part of NOT CONTENT, a series of text projects curated by Les Figues Press.  Amina’s writing has appeared in publications such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, emohippus, Joyland, La Petite Zine, MoonLit, onedit, Sidebrow, and Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers; is forthcoming in The Encyclopedia Project (F-K), Little Red Leaves, [out of nothing], and Sous Rature; and has been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS.  She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and now lives in Los Angeles.