Editing Kathy Acker (section)

===Education===
Acker attended the [[Birch Wathen Lenox School|Lenox School]], a private school for girls on the [[Upper East Side]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine |date=2022-11-28 |title=Kathy Acker's Art of Identity Theft |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/kathy-ackers-art-of-identity-theft |access-date=2022-11-28 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref> As an undergraduate at [[Brandeis University]], she studied Classics and "took advantage of loosened mores, attending orgies thrown by theatre kids."<ref name=":1" /> In 1966, she married Robert Acker, and took his surname. Robert Acker was the son of lower-middle-class [[Polish-Jewish]] immigrants. Her mother and stepfather had hoped she would marry a wealthy man and did not expect the marriage to Acker to last long.<ref>{{cite web |title=Littoral Madness |url=https://maydayrooms.org/wp-content/uploads/Acker-2.compressed.pdf |access-date=2020-07-26 |publisher=MayDay Rooms |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627040745/https://maydayrooms.org/wp-content/uploads/Acker-2.compressed.pdf |archive-date=2020-06-27}}</ref> She became interested in writing novels and, with Robert, moved to California to attend [[University of California, San Diego]], where [[David Antin]], [[Eleanor Antin]], and [[Jerome Rothenberg]] were among her teachers. She received her bachelor's degree in 1968. After moving to New York, she attended two years of graduate school at the [[City College of New York]] in [[Classics]], specializing in [[Greek language|Greek]]. She did not earn a graduate degree. During her time in New York, she was employed as a file clerk, [[secretary]], [[stripper]], and porn performer.<ref name="NYU Fales Library" />