Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing, and architecture. She is the author of fourteen published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, all published by Dorothy--Event Factory, The Ravickians, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, and Houses of Ravicka. She has been awarded fellowships, artist grants, and residencies from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and was a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize winner in fiction. She makes her home in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.

"My Lesbian Novel represents an arresting, dialogic approach to the philosophy of lesbian and queer narration and a new triumph in Gladman's ever-innovative body of work." --John Keene

"Readers of Gladman's previous work will recognize her brilliant thinking and penchant for challenging experiments, though this is her most accessible book yet. . . . It's a knockout." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"I'll follow Renee Gladman anywhere. Her form-breaking books are otherworldly in their glories and when I found out she was writing a romance novel (well, sort of), I decided I didn't need to know a single thing more and immediately ordered it. Of course, it is far stranger and trickier than that--but it's also Renee Gladman tackling the hot genre!! Let's go!!" --Literary Hub, "Most Anticipated"

"Gladman is, easily, one of the most intriguing and important writers of our time." --Amina Cain

"No one writes prose like Renee Gladman." --Lucy Corin

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." --Eileen Myles

"Reading Gladman, I sometimes feel I'm watching a mastermind manipulate a Rubik's Cube, except the goal isn't to solve it but to present every possible arrangement." --Ben Purkert, The Rumpus

"Gladman's precise and incisive writing makes me feel like I'm right alongside her investigating the limits of literature. It's an adventure into the avant-garde. Also, I will read anything that comes from Dorothy!" --Laura Hughes (co-owner, Basket Books & Art in Houston, TX)

Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project

Pub date: 2024-09-03

Length: 176 pages