Carla Harryman (Professor, Eastern Michigan University): Carla Harryman is the author of twenty-six books of poetry, plays, and essays. Recent books include a volume in Russian and English, Various Devices: Selected Writings (1979-2023), edited by Vladimir Feschenko (2024), Cloud Cantata (2022), the English and French editions Sue in Berlin and Sue à Berlin, trans. Sabine Huynh (2018), and A Voice to Perform: One Opera/Two Plays ( 2020). Harryman’s plays and text-based performance scores have been presented nationally and internationally including at dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany; Unlimited Festival, Wells, Austria; The Stone, New York; Zeitgeist Theater and Light Box in Detroit, and The LAB and The Center for New Music in San Francisco. Her critical writing focuses on contemporary innovative writing by women and performance writing. Recent essays include “Why I Can No Longer Teach Kathy Acker” (The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation, Clemson University Press, 2023) and “Obituary of the Many”: on The Obiturary by Gail Scott,” in A Forest on Many Stems: On the Poets Novel, ed. Laynie Browne (Nightboat Books, 2022). Her honors include an award for poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Art (2004), New York, Headlands Center Residency (2025) and a Distinguished Faculty in Creative Activity award (2019) from Eastern Michigan University where she teaches in the English Department’s interdisciplinary creative writing program.