CHRISTEN CLIFFORD is a performer and writer. Her most recent solo show, BabyLove, had its premiere in Ljubljana, Slovenia in October 2005 at the Mesto Zensk International Festival of Contemporary Art.

Her writing has been published in Salon.com, Nerve.com, Bambini, Black and White Magazine, Blue, Identity Theory and The New York Press, as well as anthologized in Salt (Salt press) and the recent Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong (Disinfo press, December 2005).

As an actor, she has performed in New York on Broadway in Brave New World at The Town Hall. Off and Off-Off Broadway credits include HERE, The Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, The Culture Project, Soho Rep, chashama, etc. She has worked with acclaimed directors such as Daniel Fish, Michael Greif, Trip Cullman, John Gould Rubin and Erica Gould. Regional work includes Betrayal, The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Oklahoma City, The Seagull. She has performed internationally in Italy, France, and Slovenia. Film work includes the award-winning MerchanT/Venice. TV includes The Guiding Light (ABC), As The World Turns (CBS), and The Story Of America (A&E). Her performances have been praised by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art In America, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, among others.

She was a co-winner of the NFCB's Golden Reel Award (a national award for broadcasting) in 2000, for co-writing and performing in The Erotica Project V. Other radio work includes The Archaeology Of Lost Voices for National Public Radio.

She created HEAT: sexy stories and burlesque at the Culture Project in 2002, where it ran monthly. She has performed and collaborated with many artists, including performance artist Julie Atlas Muz, Fluxus artist Douglas Davis and architect Frank Gehry (Whitney American Century Pt. II), and video artist Alix Pearlstein (Salon 94).

Her solo performance "17 Guys I F*cked" was produced at The Culture Project, Women Center Stage, BRIC Studio Theatre and The Oni Gallery. Performance art includes "C*nt/*SS" at the Oni Gallery. She has given readings of her work at Galapagos, Makor/92^nd Street Y, Happy Hour Salon, East Side Oral, The Living Room and Coliseum Books in New York.

She has received fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Recently, she has been frequently asked to speak about maternal sexuality and has been featured in articles about mothering in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Time Out New York and on Fox New York News. She was a frequent guest on Metro TV's Naked New York and has appeared at Mamapalooza! and at The Museum of Sex in New York.

She holds a BFA from NYU/TSOA and has been a guest teacher at NYU, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, and MIT. In 2003/2004 Clifford was a visiting scholar at New York University. She is currently working towards an MFA in Creative Non Fiction from The New School. She is married to writer McKenzie Wark and is the proud mother of Felix Clifford Wark.