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Carrie Cogan (she/her) writes about loners, light, open spaces, animal encounters, and the human heart. She is a past winner of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Society Fiction Prize and the Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest. Her work has appeared in Kenyon...

Claire Fall Blanchette (she/her) (b. 1994, Maine, USA) is an artist working across multiple disciplines including sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Using organic and unconventional materials, Claire investigates the boundaries that humans have established between...

Jess (She/Her) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer. For the past two and a half years, her art and research have focused on the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fires—two wildfires that drastically altered the area where she grew up. She spent two summers...

Nida (she/her) has been making art since she was young. She continued to study art in college, at University of California, Irvine, focusing largely on ceramics, photography, and printmaking, and delving into feminist issues in her work. Nida spent a year studying...

Kacy McKinney (she/they) is a queer visual artist, avid birder, and scholar/educator with a PhD in human geography. She works in comics, drawing, illustration, and textile and garment design and production. Her book of comics poetry, Mourning Attire, will be released...

Morrison (she/her) earned her BFA in Photography and Ceramics from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with the prestigious Anne Bremer Foundation Award. Her work has been recognized through numerous...

Rebecca Cummins (she/her) is inspired by science, its history, and instrumentation. She explores the possibilities of light, optics and natural phenomena in installations that have included a machine for making rainbows, a photographic rifle, sun and moon pointers,...

Paul DeMarinis (he/him) has been making noises with wires, batteries and household appliances since the age of four. He studied film with Paul Sharits at Antioch College and electronic music with Robert Ashley at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College and...

Wayne Bund (He/him/they) is a visual artist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. Born in Portland and raised on a farm in Boring, Bund's work explores the intersection of fantasy and identity, creating spaces that embrace transformation, play, and the fluidity of...

Stephen is a microbiologist with broad interest in many scientific fields. In his current position as a Research Associate Professor at OSU, he investigates the structure, function, development and genetics of fish parasites. He also discovers and describes new host...