Renee Gladman lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where she publishes Leon Works, a press for experimental fiction and cross-genre writing. Her books include To After That (Toaf) (Atelos, 2008), 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 Books, 1996). A novella Event Factory is forthcoming in the fall of 2010, from Dorothy, a Publishing Project. She teaches at Brown University in the Program for Literary Arts.