Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to America in 1990. She is the author of the lyric memoir, Mother Winter (S&S, 2019), and is a feminist writer and painter living in Portland, OR with her two children. She has been published in Electric Lit, Guernica, Entropy, Vela, The Rumpus, Lit Hub and many others. A collaborative, epistolary piece […]
Inez Tan
Inez Tan is the author of This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone: Stories (Epigram Books, 2018), which was a national bestseller in Singapore. Her writing has won the Academy of American Poets Prize, and has been featured in Rattle, Hyphen, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and Fairy Tale Review. In 2017 she was a Fellow […]
Eileen Murphy
Eileen Murphy has spent her life along the Hudson River and has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the last fifteen years. Her current paintings are based on the landscape of Columbia County, NY, where she spends part of her time. Eileen has shown widely in New York City and the metropolitan area, and was awarded […]
Julia Paull
Julia Paull is an artist living in Los Angeles CA. She is a grant recipient of a USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, Documenting the Breeding of Endangered Species (Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Panama, and California)as well as a Durfee Foundation grant recipient for Project 21, a Pictorial History of Kagel Canyon, CA. She […]
Stephanie Strickland
Stephanie Strickland’s 10 books of poetry include How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected (2019 Ahsahta) and Ringing the Changes, a code-generated project for print based on the ancient art of tower bell-ringing (Fall 2019 Counterpath). Her other books include Dragon Logic and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. Her print […]
Pam Glick
I am Pam Glick. I was born in Albany Georgia in 1956. I grew up in Buffalo New York, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1980 and moved to New York in 1980. I lived there until 1995 when I moved to Brookline Vermont near Brattelboro. I had two boys and stayed there […]
Ginger Balizer-Hendler
Ginger Balizer-Hendler is a Long Island Based artist, whose vibrant primitive work is based on her love for storytelling. In 2013, Ginger received an artist residency at The Vermont Studio center, where she completed a 17 1/2’ canvas,The Adventures of Gingerella, based on a recent journey to India. In 2014, The Adventures of Gingerella and […]
Rosanna Warren
Rosanna Warren teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). She is the recipient of awards from the Academy […]
Negarra A. Kudumu
Negarra A. Kudumu works simultaneously as a healer, essayist, curator, and independent scholar of contemporary art. She engages with pre- and post-colonial artistic and spiritual outputs of West and West Central Africa, the Americas, and South Asia. She is interested in cultural products as evidence of in tact connectivity to indigenous knowledge systems and pre-existing […]
Shari Mendelson
Shari Mendelson is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn and upstate New York. She looks to art history for inspiration for her work — especially ancient Greek, Roman, and Islamic glass and ceramic objects. With equal parts reverence and play, she reinterprets these ancient works using recycled plastic bottles. Conceptually her interest is […]