Summary

Arianne Zwartjes is a poet, nonfiction writer, and artist. Her most recent book,These Dark Skies(University of Iowa Press, 2022), is an autopolitical work mixing personal narrative and art criticism with research on borders, militarization, migration, and constructions of race; it was longlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. She is also author of the lyrical medical humanities bookDetailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy; a selection fromDetailing Traumawon the 2011 Gulf Coast Prize for Nonfiction and was named aBest American EssaysNotable Essay.

Her most recent work centers in the field of autotheory, and can be found inAssay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Michigan Quarterly Review,and in the forthcoming anthologyAutotheories(MIT Press, 2025).

Her work has appeared inTarpaulin Sky, Witness, Kenyon Review, Entropy, Catapult, The Southern Review, Fourth Genre,Ninth Letter,and elsewhere; her previous works includeDisem(body), The Surfacing of Excess, and (Stitched) A Surface Opens: Essays. Zwartjes has taught w88 mobile at the University of Arizona, the United World College, Pima Community College, Santa Fe Community College, the UA Poetry Center, and Urban Word. She has also worked as a wilderness program director, an EMT, a wilderness-medicine instructor, and a carpenter. Visit her and her w88 mobile atariannezwartjes.com.

Education

• MFA, University of Arizona