Kathy Acker has been played on NTS in shows including James Massiah, featured first on 20 August 2017. Songs played include Outside The Law, Which Is Language, A Country That I've Never Seen and Empire Of The Senseless.

Kathy Acker (née Karen Lehmann) (18 April 1947 – 30 November 1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.

Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, Acker took her last name from her first husband, Robert Acker;…