Jen Bervin

Jen Bervin is an American multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and writer. According to John Yau, Bervin "has expanded the notion of what it is to be a poet in the 21st century." Her work frequently makes her artistic sources visible, as in her book of erasure poetry Nets as well as her artist's book The Dickinson Composites. "One of the striking things about Bervin's work," comments Yau, "is her ability to both preserve and change her source."
Bervin often works with textiles and sewing techniques. The Dickinson Composites incorporated quilting and embroidery; a project called Silk Poems was "nano-imprinted on silk film" as well as printed at human scale in book form; and an art installation titled River is made up of hand-sewn silver sequins that re-create the course of the Mississippi River.
She has received a BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and MA degree in English from the University of Denver.