Poet and visual artist Jen Bervin's work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses poetry, archival research, artist books, and large-scale art works. Her poetry/artist books include The Dickinson Composites (Granary Books 2010), The Silver Book (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010), The Desert (Granary 2008), A Non- Breaking Space (UDP 2005), The Red Box (2004), and Nets (UDP 2004). She has work forthcoming in I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and Figuring Color (ICA Boston/ Hatje Cantz).

Bervin's work is included in the upcoming exhibition "Postscript" on 21st century conceptual writing and text-based art at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been shown at The Walker Art Center and is in many special collections including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Stanford University, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the British Library. She has received fellowships in art and writing from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Centrum, The MacDowell Colony, Visual Studies Workshop, and The Camargo Foundation. Bervin has taught recently at Harvard University and Vermont College of Fine Arts, and will be a Von Hess Visiting Artist at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at The University of the Arts in 2012. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.