This lecture is part of the Distinguished Writers series. A member of Vancouver's Kootenay School of Writing, Lisa Robertson is the author of XEclogue (1993, 1999), Debbie: An Epic (1998), The Weather (2002), and The Men (2006). Her essays and collaborative texts for the visual arts have been collected in the book Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, (2003, 2006). Currently she is a visiting artist at California College of the Arts.