Thalia Field

Thalia Field is an interdisciplinary writer and poet. Originally from Chicago, she obtained both her BA and her MFA from Brown University.

Field is the author of several hybrid works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Personhood (New Directions, 2021); Bird Lovers, Backyard (New Directions, 2010); Incarnate: Story Material (New Directions, 2004); and Point and Line (New Directions, 2000). Additionally, she has coauthored two books with French writer and translator Abigail Lang: Leave to Remain: Legends of Janus (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020) and A Prank of Georges (Essay Press, 2010). 

In 1993, Field was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant for her opera The Pompeii Exhibit. While attending Brown, she was the first recipient of the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. 

Field has taught at numerous institutions, including Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Theater for a New Audience, the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT), and Naropa University. Presently, she is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University, where she has taught since 2000. She lives in Providence.