Kathy Acker
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1947 - 1997
Occupation
Activist, Writer
Description
Writer, poet, playwright, and feminist activist. Much of her work is experimental, and she was associated with the New York punk movement. Recipient of the Pushcart Prize for her short story 'New York City in 1979'. Author of numerous books, including her collection of poems 'Politics' (1972) and many novels including 'The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: Some Lives of Murderesses' (1973),'I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining' (1974), 'Blood and Guts in High School' (1984), and 'Pussy, King of the Pirates' (1996). Bisexual.
