Renee Gladman (born 1971) is a poet, novelist, essayist, and artist who describes herself as "preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersection of poetry, prose, drawing, and architecture.

"[1] Her fourteen publications include the Ravicka cycle, crime novel Morelia, essay collection Calamities, and three books of drawings, beginning with Prose Architectures.

"[4] In 2016 she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists, which supported the 2017 publication of Prose Architectures.

With fiction that repairs all doubt and interruption and experiment by being fluid, coherent; what we expect doesn’t leave much room for me as a reader.

[17][18]Gladman has described the very short essays that comprise Calamities as "ditties" becausethey feel less like they’re trying to travel; there is just one point that gets made in a quick circle.

[20] Gladman was born in Atlanta and lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her partner Danielle Vogel, a poet and ceramicist.