About

A poet, scholar, and book artist interested in textual materiality across writing platforms. My focus is on 20th and 21st-century Poetry and Poetics at the intersection of print and digital media.

Education

2010        Ph.D. in Creative Writing & Literature, University of Southern California

2006        M.A. in English Literature, University of Southern California


2003        B.A. in English, Summa Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Critical Book


    The Book (MIT Press, May 2018).


     


    Poetry Books


    Borsuk, Amaranth. Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, April 2016).


     


    Borsuk, Amaranth, Kate Durbin and Zach Kleyn. Abra (1913 Press, April 2016).


     


    Borsuk, Amaranth and Andy Fitch. As We Know (Subito Press, November 2014).


     


    Borsuk, Amaranth. Handiwork: Poems (Slope Editions, April 2012).


     


    Borsuk, Amaranth and Brad Bouse. Between Page and Screen.


    First trade edition, Siglio Press, April 2012, second printing October 2012.


    Second edition, SpringGun Press, April 2016.


    Included in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3. http://collection.eliterature.org/3/


     


    Translations


    Borsuk, Amaranth. El Libro Expandido, Trans. Diego Erlan (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ampersand,


    July 2020).


    Borsuk, Amaranth and Brad Bouse. Entre Hoja Y Pantalla, Trans. Membros del laboratorio de literaturas


    extendidas y otras materialidades (Mexico City: Libros Unam, 2019).

    Projects

    Artists’ Books


    Bodle, Carrie and Amaranth Borsuk. Moon Signs (2016). Artists’ ephemera in the form of a volvelle created for The Untuning of the Sky, a series of events in relationship to the night sky curated by the Henry Art Gallery. Edition of 500 unnumbered copies funded by The Henry and Simpson Center for the Humanities. http://www.wave-signs.com


     


    Borsuk, Amaranth, Kate Durbin, and Ian Hatcher. Abra: A Living Text, an Expanded Artist’s Book and


    iPad app. (HC in an edition of 10, The Center for Book and Paper Arts, November 2015). http://www.a-b-r-a.com


     

     


    Borsuk, Amaranth. Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (Accordion, hand-made in an edition of 13, January 2013).


     


    Borsuk, Amaranth and Brad Bouse. Between Page and Screen (Hand-bound and letterpress printed in an edition of 12, June 2010). http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com


     


    Installations


    It Goes Without Saying, an audio and text installation created in collaboration with Julie Wills for the exhibition Reclaiming Freedom, a curated group show on the subject of human trafficking.


    ·       Reclaiming Freedom Watergate Gallery (Washington, DC, September–November 2017).


    ·       Alienable Rights, SLOW Gallery, Chicago, IL (September 2018).


    ·       Wallow: Exploring Grief through Hybrid Forms, Resonator Gallery, Norman, OK (June 2019).


     


    Wave Signs, a sound installation created in collaboration with Carrie Bodle for the curated group exhibitions Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon. Winner of the Juror’s Prize.


    http://www.wave-signs.com


    ·       Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon, King Street Station, March 2016.


     


    Whispering Galleries, a site-specific interactive digital artwork that uses a Leap Motion gestural controller to allow readers to interact with a historical diary. Created through a grant from Site Projects and CT@Work. Exhibited at the 6 branches of the New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven’s City Hall, and the Institute Library (New haven, CT, April–December 2014).


                http://www.whisperinggalleries.com


    ·       Whispering Galleries, New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven, CT (April–September 2014).


    ·       Whispering Galleries, City Hall, New Haven, CT (September 2014).


    ·       Whispering Galleries, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT (September 2014).


    ·       New Text, Goldsmith Center for the Arts, Vancouver, BC (August 2015).


    ·       YOU | I: Story Interfaces & Reader Experience, Winona University Contemporary Art


    Gallery, Winona, MN (Sept. 2016).

    Memberships

    Modern Language Association (MLA), Association of Writers and Writing programs (AWP), Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), New Media Caucus (NMC).

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