Tisa bryant bio

Tisa Bryant explores forms of writing through the literary and visual arts. She is the author of Unexplained Presence(Leon Works, 2007; Wave Books, forthcoming), a collection of hybrid essays on black presences in film, literature and visual art. She has created visual essays on a number of films, including Blade Runner, Under the Cherry Moon, L’Eclisse, and her original film montage on Black women as moral and sexual avatars, “Femme Noire.” In collaboration with writer Ernest Hardy, she presented The Black Book, a visual mixtape and love letter to Black culture, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Her next book, Residual, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. She is assistant professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and lives in Iowa City.

Photo Credit: Paul Sepuya

Tisa Bryant, Lynell George, Robin Coste Lewis, and Fred Moten premiere new works of poetry and creative nonfiction under the stars in the Clockshop courtyard:

Clocksh Tisa Bryant - Lannan Foundation ROZY