POETS
Hillary Berg is a writer and photographer living in Montana's Paradise Valley. Through her words and photographs, she navigates the people and the land of the Absaroka Range, pausing at the grit and the knots which bind the two forces together in an often unforgiving contemporary West. Learn more at hillaryberg.com and follow Hillary on Instagram @hillary.berg.
Mary Craig lives in Bloomington, IN, having spent the recent decade in southwest Germany. She holds a B.A. and B.Mus. from Oberlin College and Conservatory. She writes poetry and nonfiction, with work in the Poetry Distillery, Burning House Press, and Mom Egg Review Vox. Her essay in Quarterly West won the 2014 Writers at Work Fellowship in Literary Nonfiction. Learn more at chapterthis.blogspot.com.
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick's work has appeared in Harpur Palate, The Texas Observer, Devil's Lake, Four Way Review, Verse Daily, SWWIM, and Huffington Post U.K., among others. A graduate from Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program, Hardwick serves as the poetry editor for The Boiler Journal and her first full-length, Before Isadore, was published by Sundress Publications. She currently lives in a village outside Cambridge, England. Learn more at shannonhardwick.com and follow Shannon on Facebook, Instagram @shannonehardwick, and Twitter @ShannonEliza.
Jessica Hincapie is a poet living in Austin Texas. She is the Program Director of The Writing Barn, a writing retreat and workshop center. She teaches Creative Writing to kids, teens, and adults. She is the recipient of numerous awards including winner of The University of Texas’ Michael Adam’s Thesis Prize, finalist for Frontier Poetry’s Industry Prize, and honorable mention for The Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry and more. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Ruminate Magazine, Gulf Coast, the Indiana Review Southhampton Review, Carve Magazine, and more. Learn more at jessicahincapie.com and follow Jessica on Twitter @jesshincapie and Instagram @jesshincapie.
Amy Miller’s full-length poetry collection The Trouble with New England Girls won the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Her writing has appeared in Barrow Street, Crab Creek Review, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Springs, and ZYZZYVA, and anthologies including Ghost Fishing, Nasty Women Poets, and Clash by Night: A London Calling Anthology. Her chapbooks include I Am on a River and Cannot Answer (BOAAT Press) and Rough House (White Knuckle Press). She lives in Ashland, Oregon, where she works for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is the poetry editor of the NPR listeners’ guide Jefferson Journal. Learn more at writers-island.blogspot.com and follow Amy on Facebook, Instagram @AmyMillerPoet, and Twitter @AmyMillerPoet.
Meredith Stricker is a visual artist and poet working in cross-genre media. She is the author of five collections of poetry whose awards include the National Poetry Series Award, Omnidawn Open Book Prize and Gloria Anzaldúa Award. Her new book re-wilding received the Dorset prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo. She co-directs visual poetry studio, a collaborative that focuses on architecture in Big Sur and projects to bring together artists, writers, musicians and experimental forms. Learn more at meredithstricker.com.
Laura Villareal, a 2020-2021 Stadler Fellow, is the author of the poetry chapbook The Cartography of Sleep (Nostrovia! Press, 2018). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Learn more at lauravillareal.com and follow Laura on Twitter @earthandstars.
Sarah Wolfson is the author of the poetry collection A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). Her poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals including TriQuarterly, The Fiddlehead, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, and PRISM international. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was named a notable poem in Best Canadian Poetry 2019. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont, she now lives in Montreal, where she teaches writing at McGill University.
Visual Artists
Hillary Berg is a writer and photographer living in Montana's Paradise Valley. Through her words and photographs, she navigates the people and the land of the Absaroka Range, pausing at the grit and the knots which bind the two forces together in an often unforgiving contemporary West. Learn more at hillaryberg.com and follow Hillary on Instagram @hillary.berg.
Kelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, North American Review, Poet Lore, Radar Poetry, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Water~Stone Review, and ZYZZYVA among others. Her debut collection, Shade of Blue Trees, is forthcoming from Two Sylvias Press in 2021. She is an associate editor at Glass Lyre Press. Visit her website at kellycressiomoeller.com.
Rebecca Cross exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including in NYC, Sweden, Paris, Budapest and Nagoya, Japan. Memory is a central concern in Cross’s work, which is made primarily in silk and paper. She is fascinated by mining the ephemeral potential of transformed materials, where line is made by shadows and delicate forms hold the memory of solid objects. Her research includes a deep engagement with the arts of all forms, reading literature, writing poetry, listening to music, deepening her understanding of the capacities of fibers and dye, being outdoors in every season, and apprehending large bodies of water. She recently appeared in Intrinsic Momentum with Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson and Isabel Farnsworth at the American Greetings Corporation W Gallery (Cleveland) in January 2019. Learn more at rebeccacrossart.com.
Sofia Ortiz (Mexico City, 1988) Sofia holds a MFA from RISD (2017) and a BA from Yale University (2011). Her work focuses on the changing narratives, both historically and culturally, surrounding the natural world: how we define it and what those definitions reveal about us. She is a two-time recipient of FONCA Jóvenes Creadores national grant. She was most recently a resident at Vermont Studio Center, as a Hellen Frankenthaler Foundation fellow. She has exhibited her work in solo shows in Mexico and in multiple group shows, including in China, United States and Colombia. Learn more at sofiaortiz.work.
Matt Witt is a writer and photographer in Talent, Oregon. His photography and blog may be seen at MattWittPhotography.com. He has been Artist in Residence at Crater Lake National Park, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Mesa Refuge, and PLAYA at Summer Lake, Oregon. His writing has been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Cirque, Jefferson Journal, and many other publications.
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