Tisa bryant biography

Tisa Bryant was a commissioned writer/researcher for Radio Imagination, Clockshop's year-long Los Angeles celebration of science fiction writer Octavia Butler.

Tisa Bryant explores forms of writing through the literary and visual arts.

Tisa Bryant is the author of UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE (Leon Works, 2007), with work forthcoming from Semiotexte.

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Tisa Bryant is a writer learning 2D animation.

Tisa Bryant is the author of UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE (Leon Works, 2007), with work forthcoming from Semiotexte.!

Tisa Bryant

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Born

Tucson, The United States

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Influences

Lorna Simpson, Jaime Cortez, Marlon Riggs, Chris Kraus, Agnes Varda, WLorna Simpson, Jaime Cortez, Marlon Riggs, Chris Kraus, Agnes Varda, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Mark Rappaport, John R.

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Member Since

December 2007

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Tisa Bryant’s work often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, creating multi-layered texts that demand new forms.

Her first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them.

In her introduction to Bryant’s recent reading, Stacy Szymaszek, director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York, said, “Like the great Edouard Glissant, her work is at once novel, essay and