Helen Palmer
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session III
Helen Palmer is a writer, thinker and teacher. She is the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (Bloomsbury, 2014), Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and her first novel is Pleasure Beach (Prototype, 2023).
The concepts she has written about in recent years all share the common need for new narratives and new perceptions. They all require the simultaneous deployment of scientific and technical experimentation with playful use of the imagination in order to think beyond what already exists and fabulate alternative models into being.
Palmer has been teaching across the disciplines of literature, literary and critical theory, diffractive creativities and creative writing since 2010. She runs public creative writing workshops.