Biography of the Author

SXR GRIPP is a multi-hyphenate creative production API based in the Studio Aboard the Mothership orbiting outside of Albany, NY. Their work is multimedia and interdisciplinary, ranging from written word to performance art to electronic installation. They are the Chief Villainy Officer of glassEyeballs. They manage the DATALEAK multi media brand, and through it released a series of compilations as well as their most recent EP, Disconnected (2024). gripp wrote and executive-produced the 2019 short film Shyla, which debuted at the Roxbury International Film Festival and earned gripp the Kay Bourne Emerging Filmmaker Award. The story went on to appear in The Fainting Game (and Other Stories), a compilation of gripp's short screenplays (Game Over Books, 2020). Their original pilot script Offbeat / But On Point was the grand prize winner of the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay competition and was subsequently produced as a staged reading. gripp also co-wrote and produced the 2019 stageplay Spirit.

In 2021, their opinion paper Posthuman Intelligence OR The Importance of Digital Agenthood was published by the Queer in AI workshop at the International Conference of Machine Learning. They also boast publications by Button Poetry, Brazos River Review, Jelly Bucket, Impostor Magazine, and in the depression-themed anthology Light as a Feather.

They have appeared onstage both in stageplays (most recently as Freddie Filmore in Bennington Theater's production of It's a Wonderful Life) and as a performance poet (they are a two-time National Poetry Slam finalist). gripp also won the February 2016 Rap Slam at AS220 in Providence as well as the MFA Boston Late Nite Rap Slam in October 2017.

Much of gripp's work is fantastical, surreal, and absurdist. It confronts race, gender, mental imbalance, loneliness, existential dread, and frequently robots. In their spare time, they enjoy board games, avoiding attention, and writing biographies in the third person.