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Caroline Bergvall is an international and award-winning poet and interdisciplinary artist. She works across artforms, media and languages; and outputs alternate between books, performances, sound works and installations. Her publications include Drift (recipient of the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry), Meddle English: New and Selected Texts (recently translated into the French: L’Anglais Mêlé), and the DVD Ghost Pieces: five language-based installations (2010). Just out is her third volume in a trilogy of works inspired by medieval sources: Alisoun Sings (Nightboat, 2109). She is the first recipient of the art literary prize Prix Littéraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017). Recent works and commissions include: Galway 2020 (Galway), The Jewish Museum (Munich), Documenta14 (Kassel), John Hansard Gallery (Southampton), The Whitstable Biennale (UK), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), ICA (Portland), Fundacio Tapiès (Barcelona), Festival de la Batie (Geneva), The Serpentine Gallery (London), MOMA (NY), Tate Modern (London). Her touring work Ragadawn (2016-2020) is an outdoor sunrise performance for spoken voice, soprano and a dawn chorus in multiple minoritarian languages. She was the director of the interdisciplinary program Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995–2000), co-Chair of the MFA in Writing, Bard College (2005–2007), Collaborative Fellow, University of Chicago (w/ Jen Scappettone & Judd Morrissey, 2016), Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry and Drama at the University of Cambridge (2012–2013), Writer in Residence, Whitechapel Gallery (London), recent guest faculty, Naropa Summer School. Currently Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies at King’s College London.