Sou MacMillan is a musician, artist, and writer who thinks of poetry as a much underestimated form of music, and believes strongly in the spirituality of art, considering performance poetry to be the canvas for the fusion of the body and the things we can't always see or touch. A former organizer for community productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues (2002, 2003), and the founder of Worcester's Shakti Womens' Writing Pact, as well as a veteran of girl-tantrum band Pet Ufo, it is not surprising that her work has often been considered in the category of Womens' and Feminist Literature, often forging ground in the realm of the personal-as-political.

She has been honored as a winner of the 2004 Jacob Knight Award for Poetry, and has been published in numerous anthologies, including the 1995 Bottomdog Coffeehouse Anthology and Manic D Press's Poetry Slam The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, as well as publication in Diner, 2X4, and The Worcester Review. She has competed on four National Poetry Slam teams for Worcester, MA, including the championship finalist team in 1997 in CT. She has her BA in Russian Literature from Ohio State University. Sou lives in Worcester with her husband and son, and about a bazillion collage projects.

Sou's original novel, Chrysanthemum, has been serialized at gotpoetry.com. It was released in paperback in March 2007 from Lethe Press. Shallow Empire, a collection of poetry, was released in March 2006.

You can find more info on Sou MacMill at her website - soumacmillan.com.

Sou handles all bookings for the Asylum. In the past she has also organized the Shakti writing group, co-hosted the Sunday Night reading and ran the Monday Night Miniature Reading.