Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. She studied acting and spent almost two decades
making performances and experimental films in New York before moving to Los Angeles
where she began writing. Her novels include Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor,
and Summer of Hate. She has published three books of cultural criticism—Video Green: Los
Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Where Art Belongs, and Social Practices. I Love
Dick was adapted for television and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published
by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary
Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at
ArtCenter College between 2020–2024. She has written for various magazines and has
been a coeditor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. Her work has been praised for its damning
intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los
Angeles.