Michael du Plessis is the author of the novel The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues, 2012) and the chapbook Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Chicago: Transparent Tiger Press, 2007). His creative work has appeared in Narrativity, LitNet, and NatBrut, and with Janice Lee, in FANZINE and Plinth. With Lee he is collaborating on a project of poems about decapitations in film and television. He teaches in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.