Poet and author, best known for Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which she co-wrote with Legs McNeil. She sat on the Board of Directors of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and was the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in New York City. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tilt and Religion, and co-editor of Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose.
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