Interview

Marguerite Van Cook toured with The Clash with her punk band The Innocents, then came to NYC where she opened the noted installation gallery Ground Zero.

Her own work is in many public collections, including MOMA, the Whitney Museum and Harvard. She won the Van Rensselear poetry prize while at Columbia University, where she was also acclaimed as the star of the play “On Religion”.

She was nominated for an Eisner award for her color for 7 Miles a Second, a graphic memoir done with James Romberger and the late artist/AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, which is in its third edition in America.

Her own graphic autobiography The Late Child and Other Animals was nominated for an Ignatz award. Both books have been translated and published in France. Currently, Van Cook stars as herself in the upcoming documentary feature “The Brezinski Project.” She has also shown collaborations with her son, ClockWork Cros and her partner James Romberger in galleries in NYC and abroad.
At the time of this interview Marguerite Van Cook is a PH.D Candidate French, at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is also an Adjunct Professor, at Hunter College, CUNY.

Hadara Bar-Nadav’s most recent book of poetry is The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017).

Her previous books include Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize.

She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press, 2015), awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press 2010), awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize.  In addition, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8^th ed. (Pearson/Longman, 2011).  Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, and others.  She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Find more of her poems in The American Literary Review, Prairie Schooner and The Account Magazine. To connect on Twitter:  @Hadarabar

Brittany Moira Powell was born in Naples, Italy. Since then, she has lived in many parts of the country, including New Orleans and the Washington, DC area, thanks to her military father and accommodating mother. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to study photography at California College of the Arts, and graduated in 2003. In 2015, she earned an MFA from San Francisco State University. Brittany is currently the Associate Director of the MFA in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and an Adjunct Professor of Art at Norwich University. In her free time, Brittany can be found surfing, camping, eating delicious foods and working on personal shooting projects, including the debt project.

Exhibitions, commissions and publications have included: ICP Museum, Flux Factory NY, Smack Mellon NY, Politico, the Washington Post, Slate.com, the Huffington Post, Fast Company, StubHub, Levi’s, National Geographic, Converse, Hunter Public Relations, the American Red Cross, Chronicle Books, Inked Magazine, Tencue Productions, Renegade Pictures UK, BMW, Farallon Films, St. Mary’s College, Edible San Francisco, Yoga Journal, University of CA, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Abdul Mazid is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Working across a wide range of media, Mazid incorporates – sculpture, drawing, video, installation, and painting –to explore the underlying complexities of identity and intersectionality as determined by micro and macro economic systems.

A first generation American of Syrian and Mexican decent, Mazid draws upon his own personal experiences growing up in a hybridized cultural environment. Using these intersectional experiences as a point of reference, he transforms materials and imagery to further investigate concepts surrounding socioeconomics, globalization, and the hybridization of identity.

Mazid studied economics at the University California Santa Barbara (2003) before obtaining his MFA at Claremont Graduate University (2014). Mazid is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles.

Lior Shamriz was born in Ashkelon on the East Mediterranean, spent a decade in Berlin and now lives in California.

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