Trisha Low is an American author and poet.

Life and career

Low graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

with a BA and

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

with an MA in Performance Studies. She contributed to the 2011 publication, ''Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing'', edited by Craig Dworkin and

Kenneth Goldsmith Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poetry, poet and critic. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb and an artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches. He ...

. Her 2013 book, ''The Compleat Purge'', examines how fantasy can impact perceptions including those of female identity. Her book ''Socialist Realism'' was published in 2019 and focuses on Low's early childhood and adulthood. It looks at themes such as home and identity and examines her relationships, family and politics. It won the 2019

Believer Book Award Believer Book Award was an American literary award presented yearly by '' The Believer'' magazine between 2005 and 2021. The award was given to those novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, be ...

in the nonfiction category and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction She has also written for the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

Biblio

* ''The Compleat Purge'' (2013) * ''Socialist Realism'' (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Low, Trisha Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American poets American women poets New York University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Lambda Literary Award winners