Duriel E. Harris

Writer, conceptual artist, and scholar, Duriel E. Harris is the author of three critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, including No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (2017), finalist for the Audre Lorde Award. Multi-genre works include the one-woman show Thingification, the videopoem collaboration Speleology (with Scott Rankin), and the conceptual sound-image project Blood Labyrinth. Appearances include performances at the Greenhouse Theater, the Chicago Jazz Festival (with Douglas Ewart & Inventions), Naropa, Babylon Cinema (Berlin), Votive (Auckland), Babel Theatre (Beirut), the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, BAX, Letters to the Future, Of Poetry and Protest, the &Now Awards, Imagined Theatres, PEN America, and Poets.org, among others. Cofounder of Black Took Collective, Harris is Professor of English at Illinois State University and Editor of the award-winning lit mag Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora.