Ada Smailbegović

Ada Smailbegović was born in Sarajevo and now resides in the triangular movement between New York, Vancouver, and Providence, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. She is a co-founder of The Organism for Poetic Research. Critical and poetic work includes Avowal of What is Here (JackPine Press, 2009), Of the Dense and Rare (Triple Canopy, 2013), Cloud Writing (Art in the Anthropocene, 2015), and an article on animal architecture and the affective ethology of Monk Parakeets (Angelaki, 2015). The Forces of Cut Ribbon is forthcoming from DoubleCross Press in 2016.