Renee Gladman

Born in Atlanta, Renee Gladman (she/her) is a writer and artist whose work has been associated with the New Narrative movement. She composes prose and poetry at the intersections of architecture, drawing, and other geographies of experience and wandering. She is the author of the artist’s books Plans for Sentences (Wave Books, 2022), One Long Black Sentence (Image Text Ithaca Press, 2020), and Prose Architectures (Wave Books, 2017). Gladman also authored the poetry collection A Picture-Feeling (Roof Books, 2005) and several works of prose, including Houses of Ravicka (Dorothy, a Publishing Project, 2017), Calamities (Wave Books, 2016), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (Dorothy, a Publishing Project, 2013), Event Factory (Dorothy, a Publishing Project, 2010), The Activist (Krupskaya, 2003), and Juice (Kelsey Street Press, 2000).

Since 2017, Gladman has exhibited her drawings in galleries in the United States and across Europe. Her first solo show, “The Dreams of Sentences,” opened at Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery in September 2022, and was followed by 2023’s “Narratives of Magnitude” at Artists Space in New York City.

Gladman earned a BA at Vassar College and an MA in poetics at the New College of California. The recipient of many awards and fellowships in support of her art and writing practice, she makes her home in New England with her partner, poet-herbalist Danielle Vogel.