Antonio Sergio Bessa holds a Ph.D. from the Steinhardt School of Education, New York University. For sixteen years he worked as the Director of Curatorial and Education Programs at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, in addition to teaching at the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University’s Teachers College. A scholar of concrete poetry, Bessa is the author of Öyvind Fahlström - The Art of Writing, co-editor of Novas - Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos, and editor of Mary Ellen Solt - Towards a Theory of Concrete Poetry and Paulo Bruscky: Poesia Viva.
