caption death_date death_place birth_place awards notableworks name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
acker in 1984 30 november 1997 tijuana , mexico new york city , united states pushcart prize -lrb- 1979 -rrb- '' novel -rrb- '' great expectations '' '' new york '' blood -lrb- short story -rrb- and guts in high school '' -lrb- kathy acker 18 april 1947 robert -lrb- 1976 -- ???? -rrb- acker -lrb- 1966 -- ???? -rrb- peter gordon kathy acker.jpg kathy acker
 karen lehmann novelist , playwright , essayist , poet
kathy acker

kathy acker -lrb- née karen lehmann ; april 18 , 1947 -- november 30 , 1997 -rrb- was an american experimental novelist , punk poet , playwright , essayist , postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer .
she was strongly influenced by the black mountain school , william s. burroughs , david antin , french critical theory , philosophy and pornography .
