Brit Parks is an American poet, scholar, and artist living between Europe and The States. She engages her writing, poetry, and art poetics as a study of language itself whilst discussing abstracts of ephemerality, materialism, and vulnerable myths. GLASS LIMBS, her full-length poetry book, was released in 2021. Her forthcoming book, STONE AMNESIA, will feature a collection of poetry and art poetics. She has published upwards of forty poems in international print publications, including, three in The London Magazine, twelve in ALBION AN ISLAND ON THE VERGE OF MADNESS by New River Press, and five in the book SMEAR by Andrews McMeel. In 2020, she was commissioned to write a poem for the Monuments Men Foundation to honour the 75th anniversary of World War II. Among others, she has read her poetry at Shakespeare and Company Paris in 2019 and Café Central in Menorca, Spain in 2023. Her art poetics are featured in the Japanese photography book MONO as well as twice in London-based DOESN’T EXIST MAGAZINE. She has served as the Art Editor and Features Writer for London-based UNPOLISHED MAGAZINE since 2018. She has also been a contributing writer for THE VIOLET BOOK, FLAUNT Magazine, TEETH Magazine, and Vogue Poland. Internationally, she has published over thirty long form print features on art. Her astral subjects include Jack Coulter, Faye Wei Wei, Robert Montgomery, Naomi Scott, Greta Bellamacina, Alexa Chung, Scarlett Sabet, Say Lou Lou, Tobias Spichtig, Sofia Fanego, and Harley Cortez.

‘Brit's work is a music of regret. What I see in it is a special kind of Generation X melancholy, but pulled through centuries of European culture, with the ghosts of Baroque music and Symbolist painting in it— an American parking lot seen through the veil of a Puvuis de Chavannes painting, and tears. She is absolutely my favourite American poet of now.’

—Robert Montgomery, Artist, Poet

An ardent scholar of Colour Pigment History, Rare Books, Archeology, and Art Theory, Parks received her Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was a recipient of the Edes Fellowship for Emerging Artists. She was mentored by artists Frances Whitehead, Hans Breder, and Werner Herterich. Her conceptual art installations include film, performance, photography, and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited at Vedanta Gallery Chicago, Ofr. Paris, Garage Tokyo, and Chicago Filmmakers.

Parks has previously engaged in research projects at Ryerson & Burnham Library Rare Books Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum Special Collections in Chicago, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She lived in New York for a decade where she held positions at the Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work travel highlights include Spain, Mexico, Romania, France, Moldova, and England. She was born in Durango, Colorado waxing adventure in remote nature. She recently lived in the wild of The Mediterranean Sea coast on Islas Baleares, España for two years. Parks is currently a scholar at The Oxford School of Poetry where she is pursuing poetic materialism.

‘Brit Parks writes with a magic luminosity. The heart of her words are worn and unexpected. They fill the page like a meteor shower, some long dead, some searching for future light, all set on fire.’

Greta Bellamacina, Actress, Poet, Writer