Lily Robert-Foley was born in 1984 in the Sunset district of San Francisco to a musician and an acupuncturist. She has two degrees of progressively ascending levels from A) the University of Iowa and B) San Francisco State University. The theme of these degrees can be summarized by an interest in language. She has lived in San Francisco, Iowa City, Paris and Chicago. She leads a double life as a piano teacher and as a mad scientist inventing and perfecting a radical form of hyper-active reading called “machines”. The first room she built machines in had one window. The second had five if doors can also be windows. The third has seven. She hopes to gain ever more windows. Her first chapbook 5 Graphemachines is forthcoming from The Green Lantern Press in Spring 2008.