Eden Orfanos – Shoro
Eden holds a masters degree in Art Psychotherapy and a certification in Trauma Informed Expressive Arts. She offers innovative arts based approaches to healing that inspire creativity and empowerment. Eden came to the field of art therapy by way of her international humanitarian work (edenorfanos.org). She believes art can be a tool for social change, […]
Derek Beaulieu
Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over 20 collections of poetry, prose and criticism including two volumes of his selected work Please No More Poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu (2013) and Konzeptuelle Arbeiten (2017). His most recent volume of fiction, a, A Novel was published by Paris’s Jean Boîte Editions and he recently edited Nights on Prose Mountain: The Fiction of […]
Pedro Lasch
Pedro Lasch (Mexico/US/Germany) is a visual artist, Duke professor, and 16 Beaver organizer. He is also director of the FHI Social Practice Lab at Duke. Solo exhibitions and presentations include Open Routines (QMA), Black Mirror (Nasher), Abstract Nationalism (Phillips Collection), Art of the MOOC (Creative Time), A Sculptural Proposal for the Zócalo (Casa Wabi); group exhibitions include MoMA […]
Adina Hoffman
Essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman writes often of the Middle East, approaching it from unusual angles and shedding light on overlooked dimensions of the place, its people, and their cultures. She is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood (Steerforth Press and Broadway Books) and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s […]
Andrea Belag
Andrea Belag is a visual artist educated at Boston University, Bard College and New York Studio School, Faculty at School of Visual Arts since 1995. Her solo exhibitions include: Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY: Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects;DCKT, NYMike Weiss Gallery, NY, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany; Bill Maynes […]
Oliver Kalb
Bellows is the bedroom recording project of songwriter and producer Oliver Kalb. The sound of Bellows is sensory and delicate, subtle and quiet, but erupts with frantic wobbling drums, large orchestral sections and bursts of noise that push the conventions of pop and folk. Started in late 2010 in a bedroom in upstate New York, […]
Nathaniel Farrell
Nathaniel Farrell was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. He is the author of Lost Horizon (UDP 2019) — a long poem inspired by the American mall, interstate landscapes and suburban pastorals — and Newcomer (UDP 2014), a lyric personae poem narrated by an anonymous soldier and set in an undefined military campaign. He teaches college composition at Washington University in St. Louis and […]
Hilary Plum
Hilary Plum is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); the work of nonfiction Watchfires(2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award; and the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013). She has worked for a number of years as an editor of international literature, history, and politics. She […]
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her new novel, Sketchtasy, was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by NPR Books. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her previous title, Why Are Faggots So Afraid […]
Daniel Giordano
Daniel Giordano lives and works in Newburgh, NY. He earned his MFA from the University of Delaware, and has shown nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Menage/rie at Super Dutchess; A Salve of Sorts at Vacation; and Living/Breathing at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, NY. Giordano currently has work on view at the Karpeles […]