Infinite Text Collective
A teaching and consulting space founded to support and cultivate critical-creative writing.
Ways to work with us
Virtual Workshops
Online Classes
Project Consultation
The Founders & Collaborators
Paige Sweet, PhD
Paige Sweet is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She has PhD in Comparative Literature and is a former Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research interests include theories of gender, sexuality, race, psychoanalysis, and literature. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, Parallax, ARIEL, The Ersatz Experience, and other places. In 2023, she was awarded the Symonds Prize for her essay, “Mask Up: Identifying Anger in Gender and Racial Formations,” publication forthcoming in Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She teaches at the Bard Prison Initiative and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and she consults with writers on a range of projects. At the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis she is the Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Initiative and Co-Chair of the Colloquium Committee.
Miranda Trimmier, MFA
Miranda Trimmier is an essayist who’s made homes in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, and Tucson. Each place shapes her writing, which pays attention to the everyday ways that history lingers in bodies and landscapes. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona and has published essays in Places Journal, Terrain, The New Inquiry, Boom California, and other outlets. In 2020 her book-in-progress, Strange Machinery, was shortlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. She has taught creative writing at Marquette University and the University of Arizona and edits for academics, specializing in political ecology, STS, and critical geography.
Testimonials
“The class offered a space to gather in the spirit of a loving community where one can write, read, and reinvent language … to gather in critical discussion and to practice a pedagogy of freedom, without judgment. Enamored with the pleasures of language, its endless possibilities, and the elaboration of infinite texts, this is a place to reimagine the world and to dream the future of language.”
-Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa, author of History, Anti-History, and the Face that is Other
“The suggested readings, the intriguing prompts, and the encouraging attention from Miranda and Paige, gave me tools to move into original writing practices. The powerful exchange of texts and ideas propelled me to dare broader territories in my collage and painting work.”
-Patricia
“I loved the reading assignments and their discussions, the writing prompts were productive as well. The range of styles presented in the readings exposed me to writing that I normally would not actively seek out, therefore leading to a sort of “neural stretch” that felt a lot like a good brainstorm. This class spurred on new ways of thinking and writing for me, particularly on the axis of ‘being moved,’ or Barthes’ punctum. I was ‘pierced’ by this class.”
-Emily Klamer MEd, LPC, NCC, a psychotherapist in private practice and analytic candidate in St. Louis, Missouri
“Best class I’ve ever taken.”
-J. H.
"I've been really lucky to work with Paige over the last couple years: taking her feminist and auto-theory seminars and then working one-on-one to flesh out research trajectories for ongoing projects. Paige's subject matter expertise in literary criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and gender studies make her insights and workshops suited to mapping out unanticipated approaches to creative scholarship."
-Kara, MFA Candidate
“Miranda Trimmier’s writing sensibilities in the realms of the natural sciences, political economy, and the fine arts make her a keen writing coach and teacher. I had the pleasure of working with her; she helped me wrangle my rhizomatic, detail-laden draft into a socio-ecological essay that was still expansive yet also had a keen structure. I recommend her services wholeheartedly.”
-Maya Weeks, PhD, Marine Geographer
“As a writer, I found validation for my impulse to weave creative and critical material together, and a community supportive of this type of work, while also gaining insight into the world of theory/academic writing that brushes up against this approach from the opposite end of the spectrum from my own predominantly creative experience (so many great readings!). As an educator, I found the general practice of pairing an academic text with a personal/creative text as a basis for class discussion and imitative/riff-style writing prompts likewise validating, while also opening up new ideas for how to teach less conventional texts in an undergraduate creative writing classroom.”
-Lauren Westerfield, Assistant Professor, English, Washington State University, Editor-in-Chief at Blood Orange Review, & nonfiction/memoir/hybrid Editor at Split/Lip Press
“The class “writing the self: experiments in body + form” was life-changing. It was the first time I have been among a group of formally educated people and felt like I was taken seriously as a colleague with something to contribute. Just as wonderfully, I felt like we were all welcome to be fully human there. Your approach to class facilitation created the environment where this was possible.
By the time I was done the class I had decided I was writing a book…and five months later I am making that a reality. I’m working on a collection of autotheoretical essay-poems about radical care ethics in practice in my (very, very) queer family.”
-Aspen Enzo, Poet, Essayist, Autotheoretician