Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. Her books include The Amputee's Guide to Sex (2007), The Colony (2010), The Book of Goodbyes (2013) – which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions – and Cyborg Detective (2019). Her essays have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, The NYT and Tin House. Her web series, "Tips for Writers by Tipsy Tullivan" has been profiled by BOMB, The Common, Electric Lit and Inside Higher Ed. Weise is the recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program, the Lannan Foundation, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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