Harryman has received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2004) and other grants and awards from Fund for Poetry, Opera America Next Stage Grant (with composer Erling Wold), Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the NEA Consortium Playwrights Commission, among others.[3]
Harryman's work is known for genre-disrupting poetry, performance and prose. In addition to her work and her interdisciplinary collaborations, she has written numerous experimental essays and writings about contemporary innovative women's writing and experimental language-centered performance and co-edited a book devoted to the work of Kathy Acker.[4][5]
Publications
Percentage, 1979, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA)
Under the Bridge, 1980, This Press (Berkeley, CA)
Property, 1982, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA)
The Middle, 1983, Gaz Press (San Francisco, CA)
Vice, 1986, Potes and Poets (Hartford, CT)
Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays, 1989, This Press (Berkeley, CA)
In the Mode of, 1992, Zasterle (Tenerife, Spain)
Memory Play, 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA)
There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn, 1995, City Lights (San Francisco, CA)
The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre, 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA)
Gardener of Stars, 2001, Atelos (Berkeley, CA)
Baby, 2005, Adventures in Poetry (New York, NY)
Tourjours L’epine Est Sous La Rose, 2006, Ikko (Paris, France) Translation of There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn. Translated by Martin Richet
Open Box (Improvisations), 2007, Belladonna Books, (Brooklyn, NY)