Mark Nowak is author of Revenants and Shut Up Shut Down (afterword by Amiri Baraka) as well as co-editor (with Diane Glancy) of Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours, all from Coffee House Press. He is the editor of XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and the director of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers (http://www.urww.org). His essay on gothic-industrial music and deindustrialization in the rust belt is forthcoming in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke University Press). Nowak is currently teaching a creative writing workshop for autoworkers at the St. Paul Ford plant, slated for closing in June 2008 as part of Ford’s “Way Forward” plan.