Renee Gladman was born in Atlanta, GA, in 1971.
She received a B.A. in philosophy from Vassar College,
and a Master’s degree in poetics from New College of
California. Having spent most of the 1990s in San Francisco,
where she studied with writers such as Gloria Frym and
Lyn Hejinian, and became deeply entrenched in the work
of Leslie Scalapino, Henry James, and Julio Cortazar,
she re-located to New York City in 2002. In New York,
Gladman worked as an editor of audio books until
accepting a faculty position at Brown University in 2006.
She now lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Since
early in her career, Gladman has been celebrated as a
key figure in the most recent innovations of the sentence
occurring in the last fifteen years. In conversation with
writers such as Pamela Lu, Bhanu Kapil, Rachel Levitsky,
and Mary Burger, as well as more established writers
such as Gail Scott, Carla Harryman, Robert Gluck, she
has been at the center of formulating a vocabulary for
thinking about narrative strategies and the weight of
time and event in fiction. After the release of her first
full-length work of prose Juice (Kelsey St. Press) in 2000,
followed The Activist (Krupskaya Books) in 2003,
A Picture-Feeling (Roof Books) in 2005, Newcomer Can’t
Swim (Kelsey St. Press) in 2007, and To After That (Toaf)
(Atelos) in 2008. In the fall of 2010, Dorothy, a publishing
project, will release Event Factory, the first novella of her
long-awaited Ravicka triology, followed by the second of
the series, The Ravikians, in spring 2011.
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