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IZA WOJCIECHOWSKA /

WRITER Wojciechowska lives in Durham, where she works as a writer, copy editor, and translator of Polish poetry. When she’s not working, she goes hiking with her hound and cooks. As a sporadic patron of the North Carolina Museum of Art, she was particularly keen to learn about the Matrons of the Arts program, instituted last year, which champions female-driven artists and exhibits. She looks forward to seeing what the NCMA’s first female director does in this arena in the future.

S.P. MURRAY /

PHOTOGRAPHER Murray, a national award-winning photographer who has covered everything from Olympic athletes to Rockettes, had the pleasure of photographing two amazing women for this month’s issue; the cover story featuring Mayor Nancy McFarlane and North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green. “Both were delightful, amazing, intelligent women, and I felt privileged to have spent time with them.”

JOSHUA STEADMAN /

PHOTOGRAPHER Steadman’s father’s Nikkormat and a 28mm lens captured his childhood, and showed him from an early age how much images can contain. Steadman photographed this month’s feature on Dix Park. “I found myself dreaming along the walking paths of the future Dix Park, thinking of what the future holds for this promising area. I don’t know what it will become, but if the enthusiasm and passion I saw on display at the recent committee meeting are any indication, it’s going to be something special, a real treasure for many future generations.”

CHRIS VITIELLO / WRITER

Vitiello is a writer and artist based in Durham. He’s also the Poetry Fox, writing custom, on-demand poems on vintage typewriters at events over the last seven years. He took his performance installation, The Language is Asleep to ArtPrize9 in 2017, where he wrote and gave away nearly 12,000 one-line poems on dictionary pages over a 28-day endurance performance in the Grand Rapids Art Museum.His critical writing garnered a 2017 Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism He’s also written three books of poetry, the most recent Obedience (Ahsahta Press, 2012).