New Narrative

New Narrative is a literary and aesthetic movement that originated in San Francisco in the late 1970s with writers and novelists Robert Glück and Bruce Boone that moved toward a hybrid aesthetic.

Bruce Boone was born in Portland, Oregon in 1940, and he earned a BA at Saint Mary's College. He is the author of many books, including Bruce Boone Dismembered: Poems, Stories, and Essays, Century of Clouds...

An essayist, poet, and novelist whose genre-bending work addresses feminism, sexuality, and queerness, Dodie Bellamy is a fundamental and active member of San Francisco’s literary avant garde. After attending...

Poet, translator, and essayist Rob Halpern earned his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of the poetry collections Rumored Place (2004), which was nominated for the California...

Poet, novelist, playwright, art critic, and scholar Kevin Killian earned a BA at Fordham University and an MA at SUNY-Stony Brook. Exploring themes of risk, iconography, invisibility, and vulnerability, Killian...

Born in Atlanta, Renee Gladman (she/her) is a writer and artist whose work has been associated with the New Narrative movement. She composes prose and poetry at the intersections of architecture, drawing, ...

Poet, activist, and scholar Judy Grahn was born in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico. She joined the Air Force but was discharged at 21 for being openly gay. A central member of the West Coast feminist poetry...

Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Considered by many to be one of America’s most talented contemporary ...