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Renee Gladman (born 1971) is a poet, novelist, essayist, and artist. She has published prose works including the Ravicka series of novels and the crime novel, Morelia; the poetry collection, Calamities; and a monograph of drawings, Prose Architectures.

Gladman is a graduate of Vassar College (BA, 1993), and studied poetics at the New College of California (MA, 2006). She taught creative writing for many years at Brown University, served as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and was a 2016 Image Text fellow at Ithaca College. Her writing is associated with the New Narrative movement, characterized by writing that "tests the potential of the sentence with map-making precision and curiosity." In 2016 she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists, which supported the publication of Prose Architectures.