SUMMER 2022
over ten books, most recently Transversal, a New York Public Library Book of the Year.
ERIKA KECK does away with a traditionally integral element of the painted medium—the canvas. Using paint as both medium and subject, the artist creates abstract works in which swathes and strips of acrylic paint are directly suspended from wooden stretchers.
CHARLIE KITE is a crossgenre, off-centre writer focusing on nature, mythologies and communities in change. His plays have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and VAULT Festival, and his poems and prose have been published by the Oxford Review of Books, 3 of Cups Press, and Forget Me Knot Press.
LISA ANN (LAMARKS) MARKUSON is the Founder of Ars Poetica, Global Creative Director for noumena, and cohost of the podcast For the Love of Freelance with Freelancing Females. Lisa Ann has worked with The Smithsonian, Google, Facebook, Bowery Poetry Club, The New School, USC’s Pacific-Asia Museum, and countless more. She wrote custom poems for Hilary Clinton and Meryl Streep at Planned Parenthood’s 50 year anniversary and is a dauntless reproductive justice advocate.
URAYOAN NOEL teaches at New York University and is the author or translator of
ALISON NORRINGTON is a best-selling author, screenwriter and producer. She is CEO, Founder & Chief Creative Officer of storycentral, a London-based entertainment studio. She is also podcast host of The Story Hour, a two-time TEDx Speaker, and creator of the Supersize Your Story program.
KIMM BROCKETT STAMMEN has appeared or are forthcoming in december Magazine, CARVE, The Greens-
boro Review, Pembroke, Prime Number, and many others, and her work has been nominated for Pushcart and Best Short Fiction anthologies. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University.
CHAVISA WOODS is a MacDowell Fellow and the author of four books including 100 Times (A Memoir of Sexism), and Things To Do When You’re Goth in the Country, both from Seven Stories Press. Woods was the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Kathy Acker Award in Writing, and Cobalt ‘s Zora Neale Hurston Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, LitHub, Electric Lit, Full Stop, The Brooklyn Rail, The Evergreen Review, and New York Quarterly, among others. She currently serves as the Executive Director of A Gathering of the Tribes, a nonprofit art and literary organization and small press.
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