ABOUT THE EDITOR

Dead Mall Press is run by me, R.M. Haines (known personally as Matt). You can find my work in recent editions of Capgras, The Tiny, Works & Days, Not for Resale, Protean, and Prolit. My first full-length collection of poems, A Dark Address, came out in April 2020 as a free PDF. Publishing it that way was largely a political decision against the conventional, career-oriented routes to publication that were available to me at the time. In 2024, I released a self-printed copy of the book, and you can read about that and order one here.

In March of 2022, I started this press, and in addition to publishing several other authors, I've also released some of my own work: Three Essays, Interrogation Days, and Poem at the Going Rate. And starting in summer of 2023, I began publishing essays and poems on a separate blog, Out of Its Wooden Brain. There, you can find translations of Tristan Tzara, new original poems, and essays about John Cassavetes, the Minutemen, Bernadette Mayer, and more. My future work will be released on my blog’s book store instead of via DMP. Paid subscribers get discounts on my books, free pamphlets, and other ephemera.

More personally, I grew up in a rural, southwestern Ohio town of about 3,000 people. I left Ohio in 2003 and have since lived in southern California, northern Texas, and Indiana (moving around mostly for grad school—MFA and PhD—and I write about some of my experiences with the academy in this essay.) In the summer of 2024, I returned to Ohio and now live in the Dayton area, where I work as a community college and online adjunct instructor in English and creative writing.