Renee Gladman

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She is the author of fourteen published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (Dorothy, 2010), The Ravickians (Dorothy, 2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (Dorothy, 2013) and Houses of Ravicka (Dorothy, 2017)—as well as three collections of drawings: Prose Architectures (Wave, 2017), One Long Black Sentence, a series of white ink drawings on black paper, indexed by Fred Moten (iTi, 2020), and Plans for Sentences (Wave, 2022). Recent essays and visual work have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The Paris Review, Gulf Coast, Granta, Harper's, BOMB magazine, e-flux and n+1. She has been awarded fellowships, artist grants, and residencies from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and is a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize winner in fiction. She makes her home in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.