Erica Dawn Lyle is a writer, curator, experimental musician, and cultural instigator who lives in New York City and Florida. The former touring guitar player for Bikini Kill, as a solo performer, Lyle has released musical collaborations with Kim Gordon, The Raincoats, Bernadette Mayer, Kathleen Hanna, Brontez Purcell, and many more, and she performs in the improv free jazz activist duo, MYKAWARA, with drummer, Marshall Trammell. Lyle is the author of Streetopia(Booklyn, 2015) and On The Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City (Soft Skull, 2008) and has written for Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, and NPR's This American Life. Her most recent book is The Knight of Cups (Belladonna Press, 2023). 

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Profile, THE WIRE September 2024

IN WASHINGTON POST October 2022

PROFILE IN PITCHFORK April 2019