About: Stephanie Heit 2
Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe land where she is a white settler in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is bipolar, a shock/psych system survivor, a mad activist, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her award- winning book of hybrid memoir poems, PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022), invites readers inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care. Her poetry collection, The Color She Gave Gravity (Operating System, 2017), explores the seams of language, movement, and mental health difference. Website: https://stephanie-heit.com
