POETS
Sara Fetherolf’s poems have recently appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Muzzle, Iron Horse, and Indiana Review, among others; her essays have been published in The California Journal of Poetics and Plath Profiles. She is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, and she was recently a runner up for prizes from Able Muse, Gulf Coast, and Crab Creek. She holds an MFA degree from Hunter College, and is currently a Dornsife Fellow in the PhD for Literature and Creative Writing at University of Southern California. She lives in Long Beach, next to a half-tamed stretch of Pacific Ocean.
Ellen Kombiyil is the author of Histories of the Future Perfect (2015), and a micro chapbook Avalanche Tunnel (2016). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIALOGIST, Gargoyle, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and The Offing. She is a two-time winner of the Mary M. Fay Poetry Award from Hunter College, a recipient of an Academy of American Poets college prize, and was awarded the Nancy Dean Medieval Prize for an essay on the acoustic quality of Chaucer’s poetics. She is a founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, a mentorship-model press publishing emerging poets from India and the diaspora. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Hunter’s MFA program, she currently teaches creative writing at Hunter College.
Quinn Lewis’ poems have appeared or will soon in Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Cave Wall, Green Mountains Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Claudia Emerson Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and residencies from Hawthornden Castle and Willapa Bay AiR. She lives on a farm in northeast Pennsylvania and teaches in the English Department at SUNY Oneonta.
Jennie Malboeuf is the author of God had a body, forthcoming from Indiana University Press in Spring 2020. Her poems are found in The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, VQR, Prairie Schooner, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Kentucky, she teaches at Guilford College in North Carolina and is the recipient of a NC Arts Council Fellowship.
Alexandra Mattraw is a queer Berkeley poet and critic whose second book of poems, We fell into weather, is forthcoming next March through Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Her first book sold out of its first run at Cultural Society within six months was recently reprinted. Her third book is in contract with Salmon Poetry in Ireland. Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Interim, Jacket2, The Poetry Project, Seneca Review, and VOLT. In Oakland and San Francisco, she curates a writing, art, and performance series called Lone Glen, now in its eighth year. Learn more at alexandramattraw.com.
Twila Newey received her M.F.A in Creative Writing from Naropa University. Her poems have appeared in Summerset Review, Rust & Moth, Psaltry & Lyre, Two Cities Review, The Inflectionist Review, EcoTheo Review and are forthcoming at The Cape Rock, After the Pause, and several other journals. She has also completed her first novel, a portion of which won publication in Exponent II Midrash Contest. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ottawa-born and Costa Rica-based, Cara Waterfall’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry, CV2, The Maynard, The Fiddlehead, SWWIM, Rust + Moth and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. She won Room’s 2018 Short Forms contest and second place in Frontier Poetry’s 2018 Award for New Poets. She has a diploma in Poetry & Lyric Discourse from The Writer’s Studio at SFU, and a diploma from the London School of Journalism.
Visual Artists
A writer and book artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of a number of chapbook, zine, and artist book projects, as well as several full-length hybrid poetry/prose collections, including Salvage (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and Major Characters In Minor Films (Sundress Publications, 2015). She lives in Chicago where she runs dancing girl press & studio.
Nuits Balneaires is an artist and photographer from the Ivory Coast. Follow him on Instagram @nuits_balneaires.
Julie Farstad is an artist and Associate Professor of Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. Born and raised in Elmira, New York, Farstad earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Notre Dame and an MFA in Painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has shown her work nationally and is represented by Byron Cohen Gallery in Kansas City and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago. Learn more about Julie's work at www.juliefarstad.com.
Sherrie-Leigh Jones is an Artist/Printmaker based in Brighton, UK. She explores imaginary landscapes through a process of collaging her own photographs, paintings, found imagery and printmaking techniques to create limited edition prints and originals. Drawing inspiration from romanticism, the sublime, science fiction and nature, her work transcends past, future and present offering a means of escapism. She is interested in creating a journey through vast, imagined landscapes, exploring the uncanny often found in abandoned buildings and land, endless woodlands and places of natural phenomena and wonder. Recent work has been inspired by traditional Japanese and Chinese landscape paintings and prints. Jones exhibits in the UK and internationally. In 2018, she was invited to be a part of Woolwich Contemporary Editions, who work with the most exciting international contemporary printmakers to produce accessible, limited edition works exclusive to the Woolwich Contemporary brand which are available online and through a series of touring exhibitions. In 2015, Jones was awarded a Print Futures Award, and in 2013, her SS13 collaboration with fashion label To Be Adored (tba) featured on the front cover of Grazia China. Her work is held in Jeremy Cooper's Collection and private collections in the UK. Learn more at www.sherrieleighjones.com and follow her on Instagram @sherrieleighjonesart.
Maiko Kikuchi (b.1983, Tokyo, Japan) received her B.A in Theater Arts and Fashion Design from Musashino Art University, Japan in 2008, her M.F.A in Sculpture from Pratt Institute, in 2012. She has extensive, multi-faceted professional experience in the areas of illustration, painting, drawing, collages, sculpture, animation, and puppetry/performance. Her recent self-direction object theatre piece “Daydream Tutorial” has been shown at LaMaMa (NY), The Wild Project (NY), and FiveMyles Gallery (NY). Other recent exhibits include “On The Other Side Of The Fence.” at Dixon Place (NY) as their 2016 artist in residency, “PINK BUNNY” at Japan Society(NY), and “Daydream Antology” at Five Myles(NY) as an opening performance in their festival IN FLUX. As well as self-directed theatre pieces, Kikuchi has worked as a puppeteer, object builder, and visual designer for other directors’ shows, such as “Co. Venture” by Brooklyn Touring Outfit at Baryshnikov Art Center(NY), “Six Characters” by Theodora Skipitares at LaMaMa (NY), and “The Chairs” by Theodora Skipitares at Whitney Museum (NY). As Visual artist, she presented her collage animation in the Crown Heights Film Festival group exhibition“NO PARKING” at Ca’d’ Oro Gallery (NY), and“Unwritten stories” at HERE Art Center (NY) and Jamestown Art Center (RI). Her drawing/collage works are commissioned to some online art galleries such as Tuuum and Walls Tokyo, and she also provides collage animation music videos for a variety of musicians. Kikuchi is currently an artist in residency at HERE Art Center’s HARP program, collaborating with multidisciplinary artist and puppeteer, Spencer Lott. Learn more at maikokikuchi.jimdo.com.
Louis Stettner (b. 1922 - d. 2016), celebrated American photographer of the 20th century, created a personal vision through melding New York street photography with the poetry of French humanist photography in a relentless pursuit to grasp the significance of life and the reality around him. “My way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul’s eye.” The series, Les Alpilles, was his last photographic project. His photographs have most recently been exhibited in one-man exhibitions at the SFMoMA, San Francisco (Traveling Light 2018) and Centre Pompidou, Paris (Ici Ailleurs 2016). Stettner’s photographs are included in the collections of major museums throughout the US and Europe. Learn more about Louis Stettner’s photographic legacy at www.louisstettner.com.
Adam Thorman (b. 1981, Berkeley, CA) received his BFA in Photography from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2003 and his MFA from Arizona State University in 2009. His work has been exhibited locally, including at Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Martina}{Johnston Gallery, and Root Division, and nationally, including at the Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, Pictura Gallery in Bloomington, IN and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. His work is in the permanent collection of SFMOMA. He has taught at Prescott College in Arizona, Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division, Continuing Education department at City College of San Francisco, workshops at Kala Art Institute and he is currently teaching photography and the Art Department Chair at The Athenian School in Danville, CA. Learn more at adamthorman.com.