Digital Realty Stage
(On W. Polk St., at Plymouth Ct.)
Saturday 9/12, 5pm

Tisa Bryant is the author of Residual, a nonfiction assemblage of the interiors of grief, the home as archive, and the mystery of mothers, published in 2026 from Nightboat Books. Her first book, Unexplained Presence, a collection of hybrid essays on the mythologies of Black presences in film, literature and visual art, was reissued by Wave Books in 2024. She is editor of The Deep West Assembly, a monograph of recent works by visual artist Cauleen Smith. Tisa Bryant is Associate Professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and lives in Iowa City.