Interview
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 of Kundiman, a national organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American creative writing.
She holds a BA from Williams College and an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan, and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of California, Irvine.
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 residencies to the Vermont Studio Center in 2004 and to Yaddo in 2013 and 2017. She received the Individual Artist Award from the Santo Foundation in 2017; in that same year, she was invited by the US Department of State to participate in the Art in the Embassies program. Her work is currently on view at the American Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, and in 2018 Eileen was invited to that city to give a workshop and a series of lectures. Her work can currently be seen at Garvey|Simon in New York City and at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York.
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 was the 2018 Artist in Residence at the Theodore Payne Foundation, as well as a resident at the Hambidge Center, Georgia. Paull is a former resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute International Water Rights Residency, New Mexico. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Perfect MasonTheodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley, CA, Increasing the Magnitude of a Property, Custom Cabinets, Los Angeles, CA Double Life, Corridor 2122, Fresno, CA, The Sum of the Sun, Calame Studios Presents, Los Angeles, CA, Drawn in Nature, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, and In Harm’s Way, Central Booking, NYC. As a gardener Paull grew Site #28 for the seed initiative Wildflowering LA. Julia received a BA from the University of California Santa Barbara and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is an Associate Professor of teaching at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. Learn more on her Instagram Account.
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 work garnered two Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prizes and the Sandeen, Brittingham, NEH, NEA, Boston Review, Pushcart, and Best American Poetry awards. Her co-authored eleven works of electronic literature include slippingglimpse, which maps text to Atlantic wave patterns; House of Trust, an homage to free public libraries; and Hours of the Night, an MP4 PowerPoint poem probing age and sleep.
Strickland has written, as well, a number of essays about digital literature. An interview treating her practice extensively appears in CounterText and is freely accessible. A member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization, Strickland edited Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1. Her work across print and multiple media is being collected by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book And Manuscript Library at Duke University. For more information, visit her website.
In this interview she read a poem that can be seen here.