Renee Gladman lives in Providence, RI, where she publishes Leon Works, a press for experimental fiction and cross-genre writing. Her books include Newcomer Can't Swim (Kelsey Street Press, 2007), A Picture-Feeling (Roof Books, 2005), The Activist (Krupskaya, 2003), Juice (Kelsey Street Press, 2000), Not Right Now (Second Story Books, 1998) and Arlem (Idiom Boos, 1996). She teaches at Brown University in the Program for Literary Arts.