Lisa Conrad lives and works in Oakland, California. She is a queer interdisciplinary artist who works in performance and installation; she is also a cyclist and writer. Her work has been shown in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Minnesota, Ohio and Baltimore, among other places. She is the author of the essay The Names before the Names in Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City: a San Francisco Atlas, and The Opposite Shore, an essay on the history of Oakland, published in A History of the Claremont Hotel. Conrad has attended artist residencies at PLAYA Art and Science Residency in Summer Lake, Oregon, Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington, and The Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York. She is an awardee of an Independent Radio/Sound Art Fellowship through Media Alliance, with the support of the Jerome Foundation, a Polk Bros. Foundation Fellowship, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Academy of American Poets Award from Bennington College. She received a Master of Library Science from San Jose State University, a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Illinois, Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Bennington College. You can contact her via email at: fourandahalfft at gmail dot com.