Tracie Morris

Tracie Morris is an American poet, performer, vocalist, page-based writer, critic, scholar, bandleader, actor, and multimedia performer originally from Brooklyn, New York. Morris' sound poetics have long been progressive in allowing the poem to breathe off the page.She is currently a Professor, and Coordinator of Performance and the Performance Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Tracie Morris earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Poetry at Hunter College and her Doctoral Degree (PhD) in Performance Studies at New York University. She also studied classical British acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London) and American acting techniques at Michael Howard Studios.

Morris has a way of writing about abuse, power and the body through reverberation and accumulative alterations or substituting, and creating a dynamic and intimate work for readers and listeners to enjoy. She emerged as a poet, performer and writer from the Lower East Side poetry scene in the early 1990s. She became known as a local poet in the "slam" scene located in the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, New York, and eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team, the same year she won the Nuyorican Grand Slam. citation She competed in the 1993 eted in the 1993 National Poetry Slam held that year in San Francisco along with her Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Hal Sirowitz and Regie Cabico. She is the recipient of NYFA, Creative Capital, Asian Cultural Council and other grants, fellowships, residencies and other awards for poetry including the Yaddo, Millay, MacDowell colonies. She is a former CPCW (Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing) Poetics fellow of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the MLA (Modern Language Association), Associated Writing Programs, The Shakespeare Society and The Shakespeare Forum. She is a published writer or poet for more than a decade now. Her work has been seen in Fuse Magazine, Amsterdam News, and San Francisco Weekly. She performed at the Lincoln Center, St. Mark's Poetry Project, and many more.

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