Laurie Price is a poet and a visual artist. She received a B.A. in Poetry from Naropa University (then called Naropa Institute) in Boulder, CO, USA.

She has published poetry and other writing and made art works for more than 35 years .

In 1993, her first full-length poetry collection, Except for Memory, was published by Pantograph Press, Berkeley, CA, USA; in the same year, she was awarded a one-year paid poetry grant from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, administered by Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, CA, USA.

This opportunity allowed her to move to Oaxaca, Mexico and begin her life as a citizen of the world. She wrote and made ‘the glass book’ that she’d dreamed about in 1981, but never thought would be possible to actually realize. She also created other text and glass-based visual art works in Oaxaca.

When the grant money ran out, in late 1995, she moved to Mexico City, Mexico, to find work. During this time she participated in a three-person exhibit. Her part included the glass book as part of a series of ‘literary art objects’ plus installation, all made with glass, text and ordinary objects such as a small, half-full glass of water, a spent match, a feather, etc.

The glass book is the only one of those projects that still exists. It’s a poem composed of seven glass pages on which words, parts of words or lines disappear or are transformed with each turn of the page.

Price’s visual art work has been exhibited in Mexico, the USA and Spain.

In 2013, her second full-length poetry collection, Radio at Night, was published by Lunar Chandelier Press, Brooklyn, NY, USA. In that same year, after a decade of living in Granada, Spain, where she began to make this series of assemblage boxes, she moved back to Oaxaca, Mexico to continue work on visual and writing projects.

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In December 2019, her solo exhibit Transducing* / Transduciendo*, opened at the Biblioteca Henestrosa, in La Casa de la Ciudad, in Oaxaca, Mexico. The exhibit comprised twenty-eight works: assemblage boxes and installations.

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In addition to Price’s two full-length poetry collections, Except for Memory, (Pantograph Press, 1993) and Radio at Night (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2013) are four chapbooks: Going On Like This (Northern Lights Int’l Poetry / Brooklyn Series, Brooklyn, NY); Under the Sign of the House (Detour Press, Brooklyn, NY / e-book, readme); The Assets, (Situations Press, NY); and Minim (e-book, Faux Press, MA / Tokyo).

A new collection entitled These Pages Once Were Skin is forthcoming in 2024 from Spuyten Duyvil Press, NY.

* To convert something (such as energy or a message) into another form. / Transformación de un tipo de señal o energía en otra de distinta naturaleza.

detail from Pass-age - evidence & cadence / Pasadizo - evidencia y cadencia     2009