News from the School of IAS

Category: Creative Writing and Poetics

Travis Sharp publishes new artist鈥檚 book: one plus one is two ones

MFA alum Travis Sharp just published his artist’s book! one plus one is two ones (Recreational Resources, 2018) is a mass-produced handmade book about fake math and infinity, hand-written (in part an homage to Hanne Darboven's hand-written alternative mathematics conceptual art projects) & scanned & reproduced in an unlimited edition via CreateSpace. The work also includes many of Sharp’s drawings of hashtags and a procedural erasure of his Twitter feed via Fibonacci, patron saint of Twitter infinity.

December 5, 2018

Natalie Singer named to 35 over 35 list of debut authors

MFA alum Natalie Singer (’16) is thrilled to be recognized among 35 authors over age 35 who published their first book this year. 35 over 35 is an alternative to the publishing industry’s fixation on youth, acknowledging that few authors find early success. Singer’s memoir California Calling: A Self-Interrogation was published last March by Hawthorne Books. Says Singer ...

December 4, 2018

Amaranth Borsuk interviewed by UW News on THE BOOK

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk’s work on The Book (2018, MIT Press) is highlighted in a new interview on the UW News site. The article, “Papyrus scrolls to Kindle and beyond: UW professor pens meditation on ‘the book,’” begins: “What is a “book” in the digital age — and what will it become? In a new book of her own, Amaranth Borsuk discusses the idea of “the book” through its incarnations as clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and the bound sheets of a codex on to the hyperlinked, multimedia format of the digital age.” Read the full interview.

November 29, 2018

Nicole McCarthy selected as 2018 GAP Award recipient by Artist Trust

IAS Alum Nicole McCarthy has received GAP Award funding from Artist Trust to begin her second hybrid book focusing on marriage, divorce, and shame. She will spend a week on a writing retreat to generate new material and the project will culminate with a public divorce performance in spring 2019. An MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics alum ...

October 23, 2018

Amaranth Borsuk’s writing featured on The Writing Platform

An excerpt from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's The Book is currently featured on British website The Writing Platform, an online resource for writers. Covering "the book as recombinant structure," it details the way material books can be interactive and multi-sequential—features we tend to associate with the digital.

October 11, 2018

Ted Hiebert publishes 鈥淓fforts of Ambiugity鈥�

IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published “Efforts of Ambiugity” in the edited collection, Something Other than Lifedeath—Catalyst: S.D. Chrostowska (edited by David Cecchetto for the Catalyst Book Series at Noxious Sector Press). The essay is a meditation on relational metaepistemology, creativity, and the performance of ambiguity.

September 24, 2018