Frances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem, 2013), The Phonemes (Les Figues Press, 2012), and See Through (Four Way Books, 2003), as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions, 2008). The Anarch. Film Project, a collaboration in which filmmakers produce original short films in dialogue with the poems inAnarch., is ongoing. Richard writes frequently about contemporary art; with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi she is co-author of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books, 2005). She has also been a member of the editorial teams at Fence and Cabinet magazines. Her writing on visual art has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, The Nation, BOMB, and in many other publications, including exhibition catalogues from the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and Independent Curators International; she has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and a fellow at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She has taught at Barnard College in New York City and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, and currently teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.