Craig Svonkin is Executive Director of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association and Associate Professor of English at MSU Denver. He is a fan of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, David Wilson’s meta-museum, Disneyland, the Muppets, and most things fake, faux, or simulated. His scholarly essays include “From Disneyland to Modesto: George Lucas and Walt Disney,” “A Southern California Boyhood in the Simu-Southland Shadows of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room,” “Manishevitz and Sake, the Kaddish and Sutras: Allen Ginsberg’s Spiritual Self-Othering,” and “From Robert Lowell to Frank Bidart: Becoming the Other; Suiciding the White Male ‘Self.’” Craig has also co-authored “A New Parliament of Fouls: The 2015 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry,” “Old Guard→Avant-Garde→ Kindergarde: The 2014 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry,” “Outside the Inside the Box: The 2013 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry,” and New Directions in American Literary Scholarship: 1980-2002 (with Emory Elliott), and co-edited a special issue of Pacific Coast Philology on "The Metafamily" (with Steven Gould Axelrod) and the symposium “Why Comics Are and Are Not Picture Books” (with Charles Hatfield). He is currently working on The Bloomsbury Handbook to Contemporary American Poetry with Steven Gould Axelrod.