Dawn-Michelle Baude is an international writer, educator and Senior Fulbright Scholar. The author of seven volumes of poetry (Finally: A Calendar, Mindmade, 2009), two volumes of translations (The Post-Apollo Press), three art catalogues (Centre Pompidou), three communications books and one children's book, Baude has written for Condé Nast, the Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post. She has published over 400 art and design reviews, and over 90 literary reviews and critiques, which have appeared in Newsweek International, artcritical.com, Art + Auction, San Francisco Chronicle, and American Book Review, and other outlets. She has taught at Bard College, American University of Beirut, Alexandria University in Egypt, John Cabot University in Rome, and was permanent faculty in creative writing at the American University of Paris. After 18 years in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, she currently makes her home in Las Vegas, where she runs her own editing business and is a Contributing Writer at the Las Vegas Weekly.