Fusing street scenes (from Budapest to New York City) withfamily history (African American and Jewish), Sean Thomas Dougherty uses bothtraditional and experimental forms to explore issues of identity and family.Deeply rooted in music and performance, Dougherty's poetry resists easycategorization, revealing the complexity of our lives and times.Sean ThomasDougherty lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the BFA program forcreative writing at Penn State Erie. He is a nationally renowned performancepoet and author of nine previous poetry collections. He was a finalist for the2005 Paterson Poetry Prize and winner of the 2000 Pinyon Press Poetry Prize.