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| birth_place = [[Atlanta, GA]] |
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| occupation = {{Cslist|Writer|poet|artist}} |
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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Vassar College]] (BA)|[[New College of California]] (MFA)}} |
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| website = {{URL|reneegladman.com}} |
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'''Renee Gladman''' (born 1971) is a poet, novelist, essayist, and artist who describes herself as "preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersection of poetry, prose, drawing, and architecture."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gladman |first=Renee |date=February 2023 |title=Renee Gladman shares her top ten |language=en-US |volume=61 |work=[[Artforum]] |issue=6 |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202302/renee-gladman-shares-her-top-ten-89988 |access-date=2023-02-09 |issn=0004-3532 |archive-date=2023-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209081214/https://www.artforum.com/print/202302/renee-gladman-shares-her-top-ten-89988 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her fourteen publications include the Ravicka cycle, crime novel ''Morelia'', essay collection ''Calamities'', and three books of drawings, beginning with ''Prose Architectures''. |
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'''Renee Gladman''' (born 1971) is a poet, novelist, essayist, and artist. She has published prose works including the Ravicka series of novels and the crime novel, ''Morella''; the poetry collection, ''Calamities''; and a monograph of drawings, ''Prose Architectures''. |
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== Life and career == |
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Gladman is a graduate of [[Vassar College]] (BA, 1993), and studied poetics at the [[New College of California]] (MA, 2006). She taught creative writing at [[Brown University]] from 2006 to 2014, served as a fellow at the [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]] at Harvard, and was a 2016 Image Text fellow at [[Ithaca College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ithaca.edu/gradprograms/image-text/faculty/?item=9729|title=Renee Gladman, 2016 Faculty - Faculty, Fellows and Visiting Artists - Image Text - Ithaca College|website=www.ithaca.edu|access-date=2018-03-09|archive-date=2018-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321130930/https://www.ithaca.edu/gradprograms/image-text/faculty/?item=9729|url-status=live}}</ref> Her writing is associated with the [[New Narrative]] movement,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Konchan |first=Virginia |date=2014-05-19 |title=Renee Gladman and the New Narrative |url=https://jacket2.org/reviews/renee-gladman-and-new-narrative |access-date=2018-03-09 |website=[[Jacket2]] |archive-date=2018-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305215908/http://jacket2.org/reviews/renee-gladman-and-new-narrative |url-status=live }}</ref> characterized by writing that "tests the potential of the sentence with map-making precision and curiosity."<ref>{{cite web|title=Renee Gladman|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/renee-gladman|website=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=7 November 2017|archive-date=21 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321130348/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/renee-gladman|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016 she was awarded a [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]] Grant to Artists, which supported the 2017 publication of ''Prose Architectures''. [[Wesleyan University]]'s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery showed her first solo exhibition, ''The Dreams of Sentences'', in the fall of 2022; [[Artists Space]] showed another solo show, ''Narratives of Magnitude'', in the spring of 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude |url=https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/renee-gladman |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=Artists Space |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209081217/https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/renee-gladman |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/galleries/documents/2022/renee_gladman_zilkha_090622_handout_single_pages_with_checklist.pdf |title=The Dreams of Sentences exhibition handout |publisher=Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery |year=2022 |access-date=2023-02-09 |archive-date=2023-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209081214/https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/galleries/documents/2022/renee_gladman_zilkha_090622_handout_single_pages_with_checklist.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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⚫ | As a publisher, Gladman has been responsible for the zine ''Clamour'' (1996-1999), the Leroy Chapbook series (1999-2003), and the Leon Works press, a perfect bound series of books for experimental prose (2005–present).<ref>{{cite web|title=Renee Gladman|url=http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/renee-gladman|website=Foundation for Contemporary Arts|accessdate=7 November 2017|archive-date=26 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235228/http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/renee-gladman|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Renee Gladman {{!}} Literary Arts Program |url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/about/faculty/renee-gladman/renee-gladman |url-status=dead |access-date=2018-03-09 |website=www.brown.edu |archive-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321130530/https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/about/faculty/renee-gladman/renee-gladman }}</ref> |
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Gladman is a graduate of Vassar College (BA, 1993), and studied poetics at the New College of California (MA, 2006). She taught creative writing for many years at Brown University, served as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and was a 2016 Image Text fellow at Ithaca College<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ithaca.edu/gradprograms/image-text/faculty/?item=9729|title=Renee Gladman, 2016 Faculty - Faculty, Fellows and Visiting Artists - Image Text - Ithaca College|website=www.ithaca.edu|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref>. Her writing is associated with the New Narrative<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jacket2.org/reviews/renee-gladman-and-new-narrative|title=Renee Gladman and the New Narrative {{!}} Jacket2|website=jacket2.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref> movement, characterized by writing that "tests the potential of the sentence with map-making precision and curiosity."<ref>{{cite web|title=Renee Gladman|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/renee-gladman|website=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref> In 2016 she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists, which supported the publication of ''Prose Architectures''. |
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⚫ | As a publisher, Gladman has been responsible for the zine ''Clamour'' (1996-1999), the Leroy Chapbook series (1999-2003), and the Leon Works press, a perfect bound series of books for experimental prose ( |
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== Prizes == |
== Prizes == |
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Gladman has been the recipient of numerous literary prizes, fellowships, and awards, including a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients?utf8=%E2%9C%93&year=2016&grant_discipline_id=&grant_type_id=|title=Grant Recipients :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2018-03-09|archive-date=2017-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330183710/http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients?utf8=%E2%9C%93&year=2016&grant_discipline_id=&grant_type_id=|url-status=live}}</ref> and a 2017 [[Lannan Foundation]] Writing Residency in [[Marfa, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lannan.org/residency/past|title=Lannan Foundation|website=Lannan Foundation|access-date=2018-03-09|archive-date=2018-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321131137/https://lannan.org/residency/past|url-status=live}}</ref> Her work of creative nonfiction ''Calamities'' won the 2017 [[CLMP Firecracker Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/firecracker/firecracker-awards-winners-archive/ |title=Firecracker Awards Winners archive|work=CLMP.org}}</ref> In March 2021 she was awarded the [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes|Windham–Campbell Literature Prize]] for fiction.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-03-23|title=Windham-Campbell Prize recipients announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/23/183796/windham-campbell-prize-recipients-announced/|access-date=2021-03-25|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-date=2021-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323011837/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/23/183796/windham-campbell-prize-recipients-announced/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2023, ''Plans for Sentences'' was a finalist for the [[Hurston/Wright Legacy Award]] for Poetry.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Ali-Coleman |first=Khadijah Z. |date=2023-06-28 |title=2023 Legacy Awards Nominees |url=https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardsnominees/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429175058/https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardsnominees/index.html |archive-date=April 29, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=[[Hurston/Wright Foundation]]}}</ref> |
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== Genre and style == |
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Gladman has been the recipient of numerous literary prizes, fellowships, and awards, including a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients?utf8=%E2%9C%93&year=2016&grant_discipline_id=&grant_type_id=|title=Grant Recipients :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref> and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa, TX<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lannan.org/residency/past|title=Lannan Foundation|website=Lannan Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref>. |
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Though she is often simply described as a writer of "experimental prose," Gladman's work spans fiction and prose, personal essays, and books of poetry and visual art.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zeiba |first=Drew |title=City Writer: Interview with Visual Poet Renee Gladman |work=Pin-Up Magazine |url=https://pinupmagazine.org/articles/pinup-renee-gladman-interview |access-date=2018-03-09 |archive-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321130810/https://pinupmagazine.org/articles/pinup-renee-gladman-interview |url-status=live }}</ref> She is very interested breaking down boundaries between genres. In an interview with Lucy Ives describing the differences between prose and fiction, Gladman described her desire to blur the two forms: <blockquote>Fiction is interested in a certain kind of unfolding or sequence of events. Time is more intact in fiction. Prose, I think, introduces the element of the awareness of yourself in language as you are unfolding things in time and allowing yourself to be distracted or interrupted, allowing yourself to question the difficulty of what you’re doing and be stalled, not to move. I want more fiction to do this, because it changes the way we read and understand story. With fiction that repairs all doubt and interruption and experiment by being fluid, coherent; what we expect doesn’t leave much room for me as a reader. But I think the more you talk about these categories, their distinctions, the quicker they break down. Ultimately, what I want is for there to be a blur over everything.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last1=Gladman |first1=Renee |last2=Ives |first2=Lucy |date=2012-01-31 |title=The Company That Never Comes |work=[[Triple Canopy]] |url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the-company-that-never-comes |access-date=2018-03-09 |archive-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321131108/https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the-company-that-never-comes |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>Gladman's Ravicka cycle, four interrelated fictional books taking place in the author's invented country of Ravicka, has been compared to the fiction of [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Anne Carson]], and [[Julio Cortázar]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clarke |first=Phoebe |date=October 2017 |title=Renee Gladman's 'Houses of Ravicka' |url=http://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/renee-gladmans-houses-ravicka/ |access-date=2018-03-09 |website=The White Review |archive-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321192630/http://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/renee-gladmans-houses-ravicka/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Zack Friedman of ''BOMB'' has characterized the Ravicka series as “[[List of social science fiction writers and stories|social science fiction]],” a label that Gladman herself prefers: <blockquote>I definitely would prefer social science fiction to science fiction, as I really didn’t intend these books to ask deep questions about technology or bioengineering or inter-galaxy relations. Instead, they wonder about city living, architecture, language and communication, desire, and community—the same things I wonder about in my own life. For me, it needs to stay on this side of reality... and it needs to be pushing for physical space in this world.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mohamed |first=Alana |date=2017-11-16 |title=Exploring the Disorienting Strangeness of City Life in Renee Gladman's Ravicka |work=[[The Village Voice]] |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/16/exploring-the-disorienting-strangeness-of-city-life-in-renee-gladmans-ravicka/ |access-date=2018-03-09 |archive-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321192725/https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/16/exploring-the-disorienting-strangeness-of-city-life-in-renee-gladmans-ravicka/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Friedman |first=Zack |date=2018-03-08 |title=Language and Landscape: Renee Gladman by Zack Friedman |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/language-and-landscape-renee-gladman/ |website=[[BOMB Magazine]] |access-date=2018-03-09 |archive-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321130535/https://bombmagazine.org/articles/language-and-landscape-renee-gladman/ |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>Gladman has described the very short essays that comprise ''Calamities'' as "ditties" because<blockquote>they feel less like they’re trying to travel; there is just one point that gets made in a quick circle. It’s funny to call them essays anyway, because they fail as essays. They don’t sustain an argument, they don’t go anywhere, they don’t conclude anything, and the half-paragraph ones seem even more so, kind of absurd.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>Gladman's 2017 book ''Prose Architectures'' develops Gladman's long-term interest in architecture and in the relationship between language and image in a set of drawings created through illegible script that are as visual as they are linguistic.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vincler |first=John |date=2018-08-28 |title=Dwelling Places: On Renee Gladman's Turn to Drawing |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/28/dwelling-places-on-renee-gladmans-turn-to-drawing/ |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=[[The Paris Review]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209081205/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/28/dwelling-places-on-renee-gladmans-turn-to-drawing/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Gladman has cited [[Youmna Chlala]], who also both draws and writes poetry, as an inspiration.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gladman |first=Renee |date=2016-10-03 |title=Five Things Right Now: Renee Gladman |work=[[Granta Magazine]] |url=https://granta.com/five-things-right-now-renee-gladman/ |access-date=2018-03-09 |archive-date=2018-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007113613/https://granta.com/five-things-right-now-renee-gladman/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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Gladman was born in [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]] and lives in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], with her partner Danielle Vogel, a poet and ceramicist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty, Fellows and Visiting Artists |url=https://www.ithaca.edu/gradprograms/image-text/faculty/?item=9729 |url-status=dead |website=Ithaca College |access-date=2017-11-07 |archive-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321130930/https://www.ithaca.edu/gradprograms/image-text/faculty/?item=9729 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McNamara |first=Nathan Scott |date=2017-11-06 |title=Where Is the Thing We're Chasing? Renee Gladman and Her Invented City of Ravicka |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thing-chasing-renee-gladman-invented-city-ravicka/ |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130191702/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thing-chasing-renee-gladman-invented-city-ravicka/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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Though she is often simply described as a writer of "experimental prose," Gladman's work spans fiction and prose, personal essays, and books of poetry and visual art.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pinupmagazine.org/articles/pinup-renee-gladman-interview|title=CITY WRITER: INTERVIEW WITH VISUAL POET RENEE GLADMAN|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en}}</ref> She is very interested breaking down boundaries between genres. In an interview with Lucy Ives describing the differences between prose and fiction, Gladman described her desire to blur the two forms: "Fiction is interested in a certain kind of unfolding or sequence of events. Time is more intact in fiction. Prose, I think, introduces the element of the awareness of yourself in language as you are unfolding things in time and allowing yourself to be distracted or interrupted, allowing yourself to question the difficulty of what you’re doing and be stalled, not to move. I want more fiction to do this, because it changes the way we read and understand story. With fiction that repairs all doubt and interruption and experiment by being fluid, coherent; what we expect doesn’t leave much room for me as a reader. But I think the more you talk about these categories, their distinctions, the quicker they break down. Ultimately, what I want is for there to be a blur over everything."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the-company-that-never-comes|title=Triple Canopy – The Company That Never Comes by Renee Gladman with Lucy Ives|work=Triple Canopy|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en}}</ref> |
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Gladman's Ravicka series, four interrelated fictional books taking place in the author's invented country of Ravicka, has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett, Anne Carson, and Julio Cortáza<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/renee-gladmans-houses-ravicka/|title=Renee Gladman’s ‘Houses of Ravicka’ - The White ReviewThe White Review|website=www.thewhitereview.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref>. Zack Friedman of ''BOMB'' has characterized the Ravicka series as “[[List of social science fiction writers and stories|social science fiction]],” a label that Gladman herself prefers: “I definitely would prefer social science fiction to science fiction, as I really didn’t intend these books to ask deep questions about technology or bioengineering or inter-galaxy relations. Instead, they wonder about city living, architecture, language and communication, desire, and community—the same things I wonder about in my own life. For me, it needs to stay on this side of reality... and it needs to be pushing for physical space in this world.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/16/exploring-the-disorienting-strangeness-of-city-life-in-renee-gladmans-ravicka/|title=Exploring the Disorienting Strangeness of City Life in Renee Gladman’s Ravicka|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/language-and-landscape-renee-gladman/|title=Language and Landscape: Renee Gladman by Zack Friedman|last=Friedman|first=Zack|date=2018-03-08|website=BOMB Magazine|archive-url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/language-and-landscape-renee-gladman/|archive-date=2011-12-24|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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Gladman has described the very short essays that comprise ''Calamities'' as "ditties" because "they feel less like they’re trying to travel; there is just one point that gets made in a quick circle. It’s funny to call them essays anyway, because they fail as essays. They don’t sustain an argument, they don’t go anywhere, they don’t conclude anything, and the half-paragraph ones seem even more so, kind of absurd."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the-company-that-never-comes|title=Triple Canopy – The Company That Never Comes by Renee Gladman with Lucy Ives|work=Triple Canopy|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en}}</ref> |
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Gladman's 2017 book ''Prose Architectures'' develops Gladman's long-term interest in architecture and in the relationship between language and image in a set of drawings created through illegible script that are as visual as they are linguistic. Gladman has cited Youmna Chlala, who also both draws and writes poetry, as an inspiration.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://granta.com/five-things-right-now-renee-gladman/|title=Five Things Right Now: Renee Gladman|date=2016-10-03|work=Granta Magazine|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== Personal Life == |
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Gladman was born in Atlanta and lives in Providence, RI, with Danielle Vogel, a poet and ceramicist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculty, Fellows and Visiting Artists|url=https://www.ithaca.edu/gradprograms/image-text/faculty/?item=9729|website=Ithaca College}}</ref> |
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*''Juice'' (Kelsey Street Press, 2000) |
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*''The Activist'' (KRUPSKAYA, 2003) |
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*''Morelia'' (Solid Objects, 2019) |
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====Ravicka novels==== |
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*''Event Factory'' (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2010) |
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Renee Gladman (born 1971) is a poet, novelist, essayist, and artist who describes herself as "preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersection of poetry, prose, drawing, and architecture."[1] Her fourteen publications include the Ravicka cycle, crime novel Morelia, essay collection Calamities, and three books of drawings, beginning with Prose Architectures.
Life and career
Gladman is a graduate of Vassar College (BA, 1993), and studied poetics at the New College of California (MA, 2006). She taught creative writing at Brown University from 2006 to 2014, served as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and was a 2016 Image Text fellow at Ithaca College.[2] Her writing is associated with the New Narrative movement,[3] characterized by writing that "tests the potential of the sentence with map-making precision and curiosity."[4] In 2016 she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists, which supported the 2017 publication of Prose Architectures. Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery showed her first solo exhibition, The Dreams of Sentences, in the fall of 2022; Artists Space showed another solo show, Narratives of Magnitude, in the spring of 2023.[5][6]
As a publisher, Gladman has been responsible for the zine Clamour (1996-1999), the Leroy Chapbook series (1999-2003), and the Leon Works press, a perfect bound series of books for experimental prose (2005–present).[7][8]
Prizes
Gladman has been the recipient of numerous literary prizes, fellowships, and awards, including a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant[9] and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa, Texas.[10] Her work of creative nonfiction Calamities won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award.[11] In March 2021 she was awarded the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for fiction.[12] In 2023, Plans for Sentences was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.[13]
Genre and style
Though she is often simply described as a writer of "experimental prose," Gladman's work spans fiction and prose, personal essays, and books of poetry and visual art.[14] She is very interested breaking down boundaries between genres. In an interview with Lucy Ives describing the differences between prose and fiction, Gladman described her desire to blur the two forms:
Fiction is interested in a certain kind of unfolding or sequence of events. Time is more intact in fiction. Prose, I think, introduces the element of the awareness of yourself in language as you are unfolding things in time and allowing yourself to be distracted or interrupted, allowing yourself to question the difficulty of what you’re doing and be stalled, not to move. I want more fiction to do this, because it changes the way we read and understand story. With fiction that repairs all doubt and interruption and experiment by being fluid, coherent; what we expect doesn’t leave much room for me as a reader. But I think the more you talk about these categories, their distinctions, the quicker they break down. Ultimately, what I want is for there to be a blur over everything.[15]
Gladman's Ravicka cycle, four interrelated fictional books taking place in the author's invented country of Ravicka, has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett, Anne Carson, and Julio Cortázar.[16] Zack Friedman of BOMB has characterized the Ravicka series as “social science fiction,” a label that Gladman herself prefers:
I definitely would prefer social science fiction to science fiction, as I really didn’t intend these books to ask deep questions about technology or bioengineering or inter-galaxy relations. Instead, they wonder about city living, architecture, language and communication, desire, and community—the same things I wonder about in my own life. For me, it needs to stay on this side of reality... and it needs to be pushing for physical space in this world.[17][18]
Gladman has described the very short essays that comprise Calamities as "ditties" because
they feel less like they’re trying to travel; there is just one point that gets made in a quick circle. It’s funny to call them essays anyway, because they fail as essays. They don’t sustain an argument, they don’t go anywhere, they don’t conclude anything, and the half-paragraph ones seem even more so, kind of absurd.[15]
Gladman's 2017 book Prose Architectures develops Gladman's long-term interest in architecture and in the relationship between language and image in a set of drawings created through illegible script that are as visual as they are linguistic.[19] Gladman has cited Youmna Chlala, who also both draws and writes poetry, as an inspiration.[20]
Personal life
Gladman was born in Atlanta and lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her partner Danielle Vogel, a poet and ceramicist.[21][22]
Publications
Poetry
- A Picture-Feeling (2005)
Prose
- Arlem (1994)
- Juice (Kelsey Street Press, 2000)
- The Activist (KRUPSKAYA, 2003)
- Newcomer Can't Swim (Kelsey Street Press, 2007)
- To After That (Toaf) (Atelos, 2008)
- Morelia (Solid Objects, 2019)
Ravicka novels
- Event Factory (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2010)
- The Ravickians (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2011)
- Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013)
- Houses of Ravicka (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2017)
Art
- Prose Architectures (Wave Books, 2017)
- One Long Black Sentence (with Fred Moten, Image Text Ithaca Press, 2020)
- Plans for Sentences (Wave Books, 2022)
Essays
- Calamities (Wave Books, 2016)
References
- ^ Gladman, Renee (February 2023). "Renee Gladman shares her top ten". Artforum. Vol. 61, no. 6. ISSN 0004-3532. Archived from the original on 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ^ "Renee Gladman, 2016 Faculty - Faculty, Fellows and Visiting Artists - Image Text - Ithaca College". www.ithaca.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ Konchan, Virginia (2014-05-19). "Renee Gladman and the New Narrative". Jacket2. Archived from the original on 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ "Renee Gladman". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude". Artists Space. Archived from the original on 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ^ The Dreams of Sentences exhibition handout (PDF). Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ^ "Renee Gladman". Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Renee Gladman | Literary Arts Program". www.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ "Grant Recipients :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ "Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ "Firecracker Awards Winners archive". CLMP.org.
- ^ "Windham-Campbell Prize recipients announced". Books+Publishing. 2021-03-23. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ^ Ali-Coleman, Khadijah Z. (2023-06-28). "2023 Legacy Awards Nominees". Hurston/Wright Foundation. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
- ^ Zeiba, Drew. "City Writer: Interview with Visual Poet Renee Gladman". Pin-Up Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ a b Gladman, Renee; Ives, Lucy (2012-01-31). "The Company That Never Comes". Triple Canopy. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ Clarke, Phoebe (October 2017). "Renee Gladman's 'Houses of Ravicka'". The White Review. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ Mohamed, Alana (2017-11-16). "Exploring the Disorienting Strangeness of City Life in Renee Gladman's Ravicka". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ Friedman, Zack (2018-03-08). "Language and Landscape: Renee Gladman by Zack Friedman". BOMB Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ Vincler, John (2018-08-28). "Dwelling Places: On Renee Gladman's Turn to Drawing". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ^ Gladman, Renee (2016-10-03). "Five Things Right Now: Renee Gladman". Granta Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-10-07. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ^ "Faculty, Fellows and Visiting Artists". Ithaca College. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
- ^ McNamara, Nathan Scott (2017-11-06). "Where Is the Thing We're Chasing? Renee Gladman and Her Invented City of Ravicka". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2023-01-30. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
External links
- Official website
- Renee Gladman on PennSound
- Renee Gladman in Conversation with Anna Moschovakis, The Believer, February 2019
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Vassar College alumni
- New College of California alumni
- Brown University faculty
- Writers from Atlanta
- American women poets
- American women novelists
- 21st-century American poets
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women writers
- African-American women writers
- African-American LGBT people
- American LGBT novelists
- American LGBT poets
- African-American novelists
- African-American poets
- LGBT people from Georgia (U.S. state)