Roxi Power is a poet, publisher, and performer with an MFA from Cornell. She teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she founded and edits the trans-genre anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts.   She has a poetry book forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023, The Songs that Objects Would Sing and has been published widely in journals, including Black Warrior Review, for her AWP Intro Award-winning poem.  Power has performed her original Live Film Narration (or "Neo-Benshi") scripts in multiple national venues, including the Tennessee Williams Festival, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, St. Mark's Poetry Project, and many universities.  She regularly organizes trans-genre cabarets across the country . Power has been an academic labor organizer for over 20 years. 

Website: viz.ucsc.edu

Publications

• Viz. Inter-Arts: EVENT (2007)
• Viz. Inter-Arts: INTERVENTIONS (2016)
• The Songs that Objects Would Sing , Finishing Line Press (September 12, 2023)

Awards

• AWP Intro Award - Poetry(1991)

Employment

• Continuing Lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz (1998 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Cornell University

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Poetry