Kathy Acker
- Known for
- Acting
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- April 18, 1947
- Age at death
- 50
- Died
- November 30, 1997
Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, the writer William S. Burroughs, the artist and theoretician David Antin, French critical theory, feminist artists Carolee Schneeman and Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, mysticism, and pornography.
