Deborah Levy is a writer who works across a number of media:
fiction, performance, visual culture. Currently AHRC Fellow in Creative
and Performing Arts, Levy has for some years lead animation-based
writing workshops designed to connect with the concerns of visual
artists who work across a number of disciplines. After graduating from
Dartington College of Arts, Levy wrote a number of plays acclaimed for
their "intellectual rigour and visual imagination" (Marina Warner).
These are published in Levy: Plays 1 (Methuen).
Novels include Beautiful Mutants, The Unloved, Swallowing Geography (Vintage) Billy and Girl (Bloomsbury). Poetry includes An Amorous Discourse In The Suburbs of Hell (Vintage). Short stories include Ophelia and The Great Idea (Vintage) and Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
(Dalkey Archive Press). To coincide with the twentieth anniversary of
Georges Perec's death, Proboscis published a series of ebooks on how
space is occupied in the 21st century, including Levy's OUT OF IT, INTO IT. Levy has also collaborated on projects with Bookworks (Diary of a Steak), Iniva (Touring London) and in 2001 wrote the Joseph Beuys Lectures for The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
Deborah has written features on aspects of contemporary culture as well as book and theatre reviews for The Independent, The Guardian, Time Out, The Times, The New Statesman, and Vogue.