Adeena Karasick, Ph.D, is a New York based Canadian poet, performer, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of 18 books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically inflected, urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard), “proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion” (George Quasha), noted for their “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein), “a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick’s signature ‘syllabic labyrinth’” (Craig Dworkin); “demonstrating how desire flows through language, an unstoppable flood of allusion (both literary and pop-cultural), word-play, and extravagant and outrageous sound-work” (Mark Scroggins). Most recent books include Ouvert: Oeuvre: Openings, Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations (both published Lavender Ink Press, New Orleans, 2023); Eicha: The Book of Lumenations film (NuJu Films, NY, 2023); Massaging the Medium: 7 Pechakuchas, (The Institute of General Semantics Press, 2022); Checking In (Talonbooks, 2018); and Salomé: Woman of Valor (University of Padova Press, Italy, 2017), the libretto for her Spoken Word opera; Salomé: Woman of Valor CD, (NuJu Records, 2020); and Salomé Birangona, translation into Bengali (Boibhashik Prokashoni Press, Kolkata, 2020). Honors include: 2023 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form (MEA), Outstanding Book of the Year Award (ICA); 2023 Inaugural League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award; Canada Council for the Arts Creation Award (2025) for Star/Crossed: The Judia of Toledo and the King of Castille); 3-time recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award and the Voce Donna Italia Award for contributions to feminist thinking. Dr. Karasick teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Department at Pratt Institute, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media Ecology, Associate International Editor of New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, and is Poet Laureate of the Institute of General Semantics. The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser University.