Geoff Klock is the author of How to Read Superhero Comics and Why (Continuum, 2002) and the upcoming Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets (Continuum, 2007). The first applies Harold Bloom's poetics of influence to comics. The second, based off of his doctoral thesis at Balliol College, Oxford, argues that the bizarre portrayal of historical writers in poetry constitutes a genre. He also has an essay on the television show Veronica Mars in an upcoming volume (from BenBella books) edited and introduced by the show's creator Rob Thomas. He has delivered seventeen formal talks, given nine interviews, written four journal articles and three newspaper articles, co-edited a journal, and was once a tour guide at Oxford. Before Oxford, but after the superhero book and a Masters degree (and after dropping out of the Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Austin), he was a night watchman in downtown Manhattan for two years. He is twenty seven years old, and was raised in Texas, where he attended a performing arts high school. He currently works in New York City as a freelance academic, where his stated area of expertise is genre and influence in poetry and popular culture. For more information read his blog: Remarkable: Short Appreciations of Poetry and Popular Culture.