Biography of the Author

SXR GRIPP is a multi-hyphenate creative production API based on eastern coast Algonquian land. 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 album, a poetry collection and chapbook called Volume 4 (2025). gripp wrote and produced New Treasure, a short film which premiered at the 2025 Roxbury International Film Festival. The same festival debuted Shyla in 2016, which gripp wrote and executive-produced; for the debut they earned the Kay Bourne Emerging Filmmaker Award. gripp is the author of a compilation of short screenplays, The Fainting Game (and Other Stories), released in 2020 by Game Over Books. 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 Juror #6 in Bennington Theater's production of 12 Angry Jurors) 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.