DAISY ATTERBURY is a scholar, essayist and experimental writer. They produce public interdisciplinary scholarship on social and cultural issues in the American Southwest, sexual economies and transnational feminisms, and global nuclear colonialism.

Atterbury’s debut book, The Kármán Line (Rescue 2024), a 2025 New Mexico Book Award Finalist and a St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist (order here), has been described as "a new cosmology" (Lucy Lippard) and "a cerebral altar to the desert" (Raquel Gutiérrez). The Kármán Line investigates queer life and fantasies of space and place with an interest in unraveling colonial narratives in the American Southwest.

Atterbury teaches in American Studies and the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. They are on the board of the Feminist Research Institute at University of New Mexico. 

For all inquiries, reach out at —

daisy.atterbury at gmail.com