Joyelle McSweeney
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Joyelle McSweeney’s most recent books include The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults; Percussion Grenade; and the Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which won of the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Performance Artists. Her first poetry collection, The Red Bird, was chosen by Allen Grossman to inaugurate the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2002. She has published several other volumes, and McSweeney’s upcoming poetry volume Toxicon is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. She is co-translator of the prose selections in a new volume of works by Korean modernist Yi Sang to be published by Wave Books.
In addition to her own writing, McSweeney is co-founder and co-publisher of Action Books, which since 2005 has been publishing aesthetically urgent, politically driven works from all over the world. She is guest editor of the Wesleyan University’s Best American Experimental Poetry series for 2019. Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, McSweeney lives in South Bend, Indiana. |
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