Claudia La Rocco is the author of the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited), the chapbook I am trying to do the assignment ([2nd Floor Projects]), and the sf novel petit cadeau (published by the Chocolate Factory Theater in print, performance, and digital editions). Her work frequently involves interdisciplinary projects; collaborators include the visual artist Anne Walsh, the choreographer Michelle Ellsworth, and the musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, with whom she is animals & giraffes, an ongoing experiment in improvisation. She has received grants and residencies from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts, among others, and has writing in numerous publications and anthologies, including The New York Times, where she was a critic and reporter from 2005-2015. La Rocco is Editorial Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's live and online commissioning platform Open Space.
