Harryette Mullen
April 1–2, 2024
Bio
Harryette Mullen is a poet and professor of English
at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned a BA from the University of
Texas and a PhD from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her collections of poetry
include S*PeRM**K*T (1992), Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), Recyclopedia
(2006), and Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary (2012). Her various honors
and awards include fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim
Foundation, and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of
Rochester. She was also the recipient of a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American
Poetry. She describes her work as “writing for the eye and the ear at once, at the
intersection of orality and literacy” (The Poetry Foundation).