Briana Pickens is a writer and classically trained dancer working at the intersection of a literary and performance practice. She received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Literary Arts from Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She’s interested in multi-dimensional prose; in language as material; and in engaging both her body and that of the reader—she’s looking to choreograph text. Her work is an exercise in designing poems that can interrogate space and ultimately, perform.
Teaching
An Introduction to Hybrid and Cross-Disciplinary Poetry
First-Year Seminar