Alexandra Chasin is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Lang College, The New School.  She is the author of the nonfictional Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market and the fictional Kissed By.  Her last book of fiction, Brief, was released as an interactive app.  The previous recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, Chasin is currently completing a research-based, yet speculative, history of drug prohibition, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.  As Director of Writing On It All, Chasin works at the juncture of public space, historic houses, and participatory writing experimentation in New York City.