Jen Bervin

Contributor History

Biography

Jen Bervin is a visual artist and poet whose multidisciplinary practice weaves together situated poetics and entangled relationships between text and textiles. Bervin’s books include Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems (New Directions/Christine Burgin with Marta Werner and Susan Howe); a Book of the Year selection by the New Yorker; Silk Poems (Nightboat Books), a New Museum Book of the Year and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Nets (UDP) and many others. She frequently collaborates with Granary Books to create artist’s books.