LRCW Reading: Gabrielle Civil's Black Weirdo School

PNCA’s Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing program is thrilled to welcome Gabrielle Civil for a lecture on her work and practice.

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. Her recent performances include Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) (2023), the déjà vu—live (2022) and Jupiter (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her writing also appears in New Daughters of Africa, Teaching Black, Kitchen Table Translation and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection. A 2023 Franconia Performance Fellow, she earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.

Host or Publisher Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at PNCA