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Jillian Eugenios

Jillian Eugenios is a journalist, filmmaker and writer. She received an MFA in creative writing from The New School with a focus on both fiction and nonfiction. She also holds an MA in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She is based in New York City and is working on her first novel. 

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Liza St. James

Liza St. James is a writer and translator from San Francisco. She is a contributing editor at BOMB, a senior editor of the literary annual NOON, and a writing fellow in the School of Art at Cooper Union. She lives in New York, where she was awarded a 2024 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Fiction. 

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Katy Scrivener

Katy Scrivener is an emerging artist based in Warrenton, Virginia. Her work explores the intersection of violence and grace in our interactions with the landscape and with each other.

Katy holds a BA in English Language and Literature. A voracious consumer of classic film and literature, she is always seeking ways to apply wisdom from the great stories to our modern dilemmas.

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Joel Werring

Joel Werring is an artist and educator with a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. A recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting, he is an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and former chair of its Fine Arts Department. He lives and maintains his studio practice in Redding, Connecticut.

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Rosemary Jesionowski

Rosemary Jesionowski was born in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and her MFA from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, both with an emphasis in photography. Rosemary is Assistant Professor of Photography at Longwood University in Farmville, VA and resides in Richmond with her husband and two cats.

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Lauren Woods

Lauren Woods is an artist originally from Mobile, Alabama whose practice and creative research spans various mediums such as painting, video, and dance performances. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Art at Auburn University.

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Corinne Lestch

Corinne is a writer, journalist and editor whose short fiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and whose essays and articles have appeared in Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The London Reader, and other outlets. She recently launched The Off-Site Writing Workshop, an editing consultancy and workshop series. She is based in New York, where she is working on her first novel.

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Grace Kearny

Grace is a science writer and essayist living in Brooklyn. She plans to spend her time at Graves Mill Farm revising her first novel, Limitations of Study, based on a dementia research project she worked on in her twenties. In her free time she likes to read and take walks.

Andy Eaton

After drifting and flitting, Andy Eaton lives and writes poems in Charlottesville, VA. He drinks more coffee than tea, but likes both, and welcomes either to accompany a good long chat. He spends as much time as he can in Northern Ireland, where his wife is from. 

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