Education:

M.S.W., Social Work, New York University Silver School of Social Work, NY, 1995. Concentration: Clinical Social Work, President's Service Award 1995

B.A. Barnard College, NY 1987. Program-in-the-Arts, Theater, Cum laude

Selected Books:

PHANTOM CAPTAIN (Fence Books, 2023) Winner of the 2023 Fence Books Ottoline Prize

RE: EVOLUTION (Punctum Books, 2023) Released as an open access second edition as part of Punctum’s Special Collections project.

USO (I'LL BE SEEING YOU) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013)

LIVIDITY (Les Figues Press, 2012)

RE: EVOLUTION (Les Figues Press, 2009)

TRÀMA (Krupskaya, 2004)

GOOD MORNING—MIDNIGHT (Roof Books, 2002) Winner of Small Press Traffic's Book of the Year 2002

Selected Anthologies:

The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, Kenneth Goldsmith (Editor). Arts Council, England, 2012

I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, Vanessa Place (Eds.) Les Figues Press, Los Angeles, 2012

Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetry. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg (Eds.) Saturnalia Books, 2011

AGAINST EXPRESSION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCEPTUAL WRITING, Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin (Eds.) Northwestern University Press, 2011

The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1993-1994, Douglas Messerli (Editor). Sun and Moon Press, 1995

Selected Performances:

Reading in conjunction with Mónica de la Torre for Suzanne Bocanegra’s, “Wardrobe Test.” Artcake, Queens, 2019

PARALLAX: POETIC VISIONS, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, NY, 2019

SEMINARIO EURCA III: conceptualismos/uncreative writing/masas tectuales. Matadero Madrid Centro De Creación Contemporánea, Madrid, 2013

Q.E.D. II: The Query: Inchoate Affinities: The Open-Wall Architecture of Language and Gender, affinities, influence, provocations. MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles. 2015

Uncontested Spaces, Artists Experiment Initiative, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2013

MoMA TALKS, MODERN POETS: Collective Task, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2012

An Evening of Contemporary Poetry: Conceptual Writing and the Flarf Collective, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2012

Conceptual Writing and Its Environs – New Strategies in American Poetry, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany, 2009

Awards:

Fence Books, Ottoline Prize, 2023

Small Press Traffic, Book-of-the-Year, 2002

Residencies:

T.S. Eliot House, T.S. Eliot Foundation, Gloucester, MA, 2023

Poet-in-Residence, The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, England, 2010

Sabine Herrmann, Leaving Myself, 1996, pigments, Collection BLmK (Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum), Cottbus. Used with permission from the artist.