Carla Harryman

Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Academic Program Affiliation(s): MFA Writing

Biography: Writing. Known for her genre-disrupting experimental writings available in collections such as Adorno’s Noise (Essay Press, 2008), Baby (Adventures in Poetry, 2005), There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn (City Lights, 1995); experimental novels such as Gardener of Stars (Atelos 2002), The Words, after Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre (O Books, 1994); and the book-length poem Open Box (Belladonna, 2007). Critical writings include essays on innovative performance, gender, and postmodern literature. Co-edited Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (Verso, 2006) and is editor of a special issue on “non/narrative,” forthcoming from The Journal of Narrative Theory. Collaborations include The Grand Piano, an ongoing experiment in autobiography situated between 1975 and 1980 and authored by 10 writers identified with San Francisco language poetry; The Wide Road with Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, forthcoming 2011); and Open Box and Other Works, a sound/music/text cd with Jon Raskin and the Jon Raskin Quartet (forthcoming Rastafan, 2011). One of the original innovators of San Francisco Poets Theater, her avant-garde theater and polyvocal performance works have been presented in San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Auckland, the United Kingdom, Austria, and Germany. During the academic year, she serves on the faculty of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University.
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Department: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts