Dickey, Laressa

Laressa Dickey is an American poet born in Tennessee. She is the author of four chapbooks from MIEL books including A Piece of Information About His Invisibility (2012). BOTTOMLAND is her first full-length collection of poetry. Her work has appeared in Aufgabe, Cerise Press, inter-rupture, Newfound, Quarterly West, American Letters & Commentary, Permafrost, and other journals. A chapbook entitled [apparatus for manufacturing sunset] is forthcoming from dancing girl press (2013). She currently lives and writes in Berlin, where she also practices movement improvisation and bodywork.