Assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona, Johanna Skibsrud is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut novel, The Sentimentalists, was awarded the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, making her the youngest writer to win Canada’s most prestigious literary prize. Recent publications include a novel, Island (Penguin 2019), a collection of essays, “The nothing that is”: Essays on Art, Literature and Being (Book*hug, 2019) and a critical monograph, The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics (McGill Queens, 2020).
Johanna Skibsrud
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Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava Polunin
The legendary Russian performance artist on the theory and politics of clowning.
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