Urayoan Noel is the author of the book HI-DENSITY POLITICS (BlazeVOX Books, 2010) and the book/DVD KOOL LOGIC/LA LOGICA KOOL (Bilingual Press, 2005), as well as two collections of poetry in Spanish: Las flores del mall (object-book, 2000) and Boringken (Ediciones Callejon/LaTertulia, 2008). A contributing editor of Mandorla , he is the translator of the chapbook Belleza y Felicidad (Belladonna*, 2005), and has translated a variety of Latin American and U.S. Latino/a poets. His reviews and essays have appeared in Contemporary Literature , BOMB , and Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); and he has performed internationally, both solo and as part of Spanic Attack. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Noel divides his time between the South Bronx and upstate New York. He teaches English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he serves as a faculty advisor to the online poetics journal Barzakh .