Join us for a reading and conversation with Renee Gladman, moderated by Korey Williams.
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, 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, as well as three collections of drawings, Prose Architectures (2017), One Long Black Sentence (2020), and Plans for Sentences (2022). My Lesbian Novel, a work of fiction and autobiography, is forthcoming in 2024. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Architectural Review, POETRY, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and e-flux, in addition to several artist monographs and exhibition catalogs. Gladman’s first solo exhibition, The Dreams of Sentences, opened in fall 2022 at Wesleyan University. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021. She makes her home in New England.
Literary Arts Lab: Art and Wonder is a two-day festival of public readings, panels, craft talks, and Q&As featuring writers Arda Collins, Hernan Diaz, Renee Gladman, and Joy Harjo in conversation with UChicago faculty, students, and community members. Join us as we explore the intersections between art, wonder, imagination, and writing craft. Free and open to everyone.
Presented in partnership with the Poetry and the Human Core; the Department of English Language and Literature; the Office of Multicultural Affairs; the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity; the Committee on Social Thought; the Division of the Humanities; and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores