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Katie Parry has a MFA from Tyler University and a BA from Kenyon College in Ohio. She is an artist and teacher living in West Philadelphia. She spends her time designing arts curriculum, teaching, and making collaborative animations. She is drawn to things that move because light has moved through them, or pushed up against them, or warmed their faces.
Books mentioned in the interview are Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson, The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, and The Blazing World by Siri Hustved.
[…] Katie Parry is currently working on a collaborative project. Ultimately she envisions an online format for the piece that is something of an alternative to the traditional advice column. Visitors will be able to explore a map in which they’ll find suggestions from artists, writers, poets, and others for literature or other art forms that might inform their particular circumstances. The project explores metaphor and ways of thinking as potential solutions rather than traditional advice. Much of Parry’s work is influenced by light. Parry also teaches art and creates collaborative animation. […]