ABOUT THE EDITOR

Dead Mall Press is run by me, R.M. Haines (known personally as Matt). I was raised in a rural, southwestern Ohio town of about 3,000 people. I'm a first generation college graduate, holding also an MFA and PhD. I left Ohio in 2003 and have since lived in southern California and northern Texas. Currently, I live in Indiana where I work as an adjunct instructor in English (both online and at a community college). In late July 2024, I will be relocating to Dayton, OH.

My writing has appeared in a variety of places, most recently Protean, Prolit, Not for Resale, and Works & Days. My first full-length collection of poems, A Dark Address, was released 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. That same year, my essay "Poets Should Be Socialists" appeared, and it continues to circulate online.

In March of 2022, I started this press, and in addition to publishing other authors, I've also released some of my own work: Three Essays, Interrogation Days (vols. I & II), 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—all for free. (Tell your friends.)