Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of nine published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, The Ravickians, and Calamities, a collection of linked essay-fictions. Recent writings or drawings have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s, Stonecutter, and Poetry Magazine, and her first monograph of drawings Prose Architectures is due out from Wave Books in Spring 2017. A 2014-15 fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, she makes work in New England.