Renee Gladman was born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia. She now makes her home in San Francisco, California, where she edits the chapbook press, Leroy, which publishes innovative work by emerging and geographically obscured writers. Her own work explores 21st century urban American society. She has been published in numerous journals in the United States and is the author of Arlem (Idiom Press, 1996) and Not Right Now, (Second Story Books, 1998). Juice, a collection of prose work, is forthcoming from Kelsey St. Press.