Henry Hoke | |
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 Henry Hoke reads at Housing Works bookstore, New York City, June 2018 | |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Website | http://www.henryhoke.com |
Henry Hoke (born 1983 as Henry Hoke Perkins [1] ) is an American author known for hybrid books. [2] He directs Enter>text, a business organising annual events, described as a 'living literary journal', and his short fiction and non-fiction have been published in Electric Literature , [3] Hobart , [4] The Collagist , [5] Birkensnake , [6] and Joyland . [7]
Hoke was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. [8] He is a great-grandson of Walter W. Bankhead and a cousin of Tallulah Bankhead. [9] He earned his MFA in creative writing from California Institute of the Arts. [10]
Hoke co-created Enter>text, a series of large-scale immersive literary events, in Los Angeles in 2011. [11] Enter>text has been performed at the &NOW Festival, [12] [13] Machine Project, [14] [15] Human Resources, [16] the Pasadena Museum of California Art, [17] and the Neutra VDL House. [18] [19] [20] Over 150 performers have appeared in Enter>text, including Kate Durbin, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Douglas Kearney and Ryka Aoki.
Hoke's story collection Genevieves won the 2015 book prize for prose from Subito Press at the University of Colorado, Boulder. [21] Open Throat was shortlisted for the PEN/Falkner Award for Fiction of 2024. [22]
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Hoke's Genevieves, for instance, reads as a ledger of what cannot, will not, be said aloud. Presented as a series of intricately linked hybrid texts, which are each themselves comprised of discrete episodes, Hoke's writing allows uncertainty to accumulate in the space between things.
In its seven-year history, Enter>Text has staged events in three locations that no longer exist; their first shows were in a converted warehouse in Cypress Park inhabited by CalArts alumni, where co-founders Henry Hoke and Marco Franco Di Dominico met.
Inside the historic Neutra VDL House on Silver Lake Boulevard, two dancers fold themselves over midcentury modern furniture...For one night only, One House Twice, curated by the dance project homeLA and live literary journal Enter>Text, opened the by-appointment-only institution to the public.
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