Poetry. Carla Harryman is the author of 11 books of poetry, prose plays and essays. Her two experimental novels, GARDENER OF STARS and THE WORDS: AFTER CARL SANDBURG's ROOTABAGA STORIES AND JEAN PAUL SARTRE are "explorations of the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire." BABY continues this exploration through the convolutions of Baby, who enters the book as "fire in the womb with a skirt." Harryman, a native Californian, now lives in Detroit where she teaches women's studies, creative writing and literature at Wayne State University. She has also written a number of essays on innovative writing by women. Her most recent essay, "Residues or Revolutions of the Language of Acker and Artaud," is forthcoming in Devouring Institutions (SDSU Press).

Carla Harryman (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Women's Studies and Creative Writing at Wayne State University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. She is married to the poet Barrett Watten. Born in Orange, California, Harryman studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. In 1979, she co-founded the San Francisco Poets Theater, which staged numerous experimental plays, including her Third Man and other plays. Harryman has received grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Fund for Poetry, Opera America Next Stage Grant (with composer Erling Wold), Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the NEA Consortium Playwrights Commission, among others.

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