Amaranth Borsuk is a poet, scholar, and book artist whose work encompasses print and digital media, performance and installation. Her volume The Book, forthcoming from MIT Press, traces the interrelationship of form and content in the book’s development, bridging book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we assume we know intimately. Her books of poetry include Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016); As We Know (Subito, 2014), an erasure collaboration with Andy Fitch; Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012); and, with Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen (PringGun Press, 2016; Siglio Press, 2012), a book of augmented-reality poems. Her intermedia project Abra (1913 Press, 2016), created with Kate Durbin and Ian Hatcher, received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts and was issued in 2015 as a limited edition hand-made book and free iPad / iPhone app that invites readers to customize the text and make the book their own. Her other digital collaborations include The Deletionist, an erasure bookmarklet created with Nick Montfort and Jesper Juul; Whispering Galleries, a site-specific LeapMotion interactive text-work for the New Haven Free Public Library; and, with Carrie Bodle, Moon Signs, a digital and print poetry-generator that uses the volvelle structure to interrogate the historic relationship between poetic and military projection onto the moon's mute surface. Amaranth is currently an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics.
