Lisa Samuels experiments with writing, art, and relational theory in transnational life. She is the author of fourteen previous books, from The Seven Voices (1998) to Breach (2021), many poetry pamphlets and broadsides, and many essays on power, interpretation, and the body. She collaborates with composers and artists, edits literary work, and performs internationally. Her selected essays, Imagining What We Don't Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies, will be published this year by punctum books. Livestream is her seventh poetry book with Shearsman.