Tess Michaelson
Tess Michaelson is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York who works at the intersection of text and performance. Her writing has appeared in motor dance journal, the Brooklyn Rail, Cost of Paper, and Chicago Review, among other publications. Tess studied English and Aesthetics at Stanford University and earned her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. She is currently at work on an improvisational novel.
I take out the camera and begin filming the buildings as if they are faces—a face disfigured by anger, a face reading. I wanted writing to be like this: the elongation of description rather than vertical event.
A young boy reaches his face around the stroller in which he sits and gazes at me blankly as I pull out my notebook. The wind threatens to turn its pages. His mother coos as he sucks his thumb: What do you think? What do you say? I write this paragraph on the street.
Anna Thérèse Witenberg’s Heat simmers with intensity, dexterously evolving through shifting configurations of drama and desire.
