Faculty

Profile

J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist and multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of poetics, performance and decoloniality. She is the author of two books of poetry. Pink Noise, a book of hybrid essays on John Cage and the poetics of sound was a finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the Megaphone Prize. Her work has been anthologized in books published by W.W. Norton, Atelier Editions and Harvard University Press. An advocate of cross-disciplinary work, she has collaborated with artists such as Salman Rushdie, Mark Morris and the American String Quartet. As a librettist, she is the inaugural recipient of Opera America's IDEA residency; DRIFT, her opera (written with composer Alyssa Weinberg) on migration and climate change, is in development at the National Opera Center. A 2024 Artist in Residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center, she is also the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bennington College, the MAP Fund, Mellon Foundation, Critical Minded, Jerome Foundation and Poets House.

Recent Publications

Tender Machines, 2023

The Cumulus Effect, 2015

Performances and Appearances

ISOLA, Long Beach Opera and Princeton University 

Unbroken, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 

Bomb Interview with J. Mae Barizo, BOMB Magazine 

Research Interests

Contemporary Poetics, Performance, Decoloniality, Radically Inclusive Pedagogy and Curricula, Hybrid Studies.