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Haley Grunloh
Haley Grunloh is an artist from New Haven, Connecticut. She earned her BFA from Pratt Institute and a certificate in science illustration from California State University Monterey Bay. She works professionally as an illustrator, focusing on educational projects that support science communication and public engagement. Her clients have included Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
Ian Shank
Ian is a member of the expository writing faculty at Harvard College, where he has taught since 2021. He also teaches a variety of literature and creative writing classes at the Harvard Extension School, including a survey course on the work of George Saunders, a humor writing workshop, and a seminar about unreliable narrators. His writing has been published in McSweeney’s, The Los Angeles Review of Books, DIAGRAM, Art & Object, Atlas Obscura, and Artsy, among other publications. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and BA degrees in History and Italian Studies from Brown University.
Emily Hornsby
Emily Hornsby is a television writer and producer from Charlottesville, Virginia. After starting out as an assistant to the showrunners, Emily rose through the ranks and went on to write and produce on three seasons of Showtime’s hit series Billions. She also served as a Producer on Showtime’s Super Pumped:The Battle for Uber. She has produced her scripts on set in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Emily got her BA from Princeton University, where she majored in Religion. Recently, she has turned her attention towards prose writing and is working on her first novel.
Samuel Leone
Samuel Leone was born in 2003 in Schenectady, NY, and is a visual artist based between New York City and Charlton, NY. Leone is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology, with an expected graduation in Spring 2026. Leone is also an alumnus of the Mount Gretna School of Art. He has presented three solo exhibitions of work made en plein air, including two at Main Street Studios in Charlton, NY, and a windowfront Artist of the Month exhibition at Blick Art Materials in Chelsea, NY. Leone’s practice is an exploration of the genre of en plein air, an attempt to negotiate authorship between self, the environment, and conditions of chance that actively shape the work. Paintings emerge from encounters with specific sites and develop through an exchange between Leones decisions and the forces imposed by the environment.
Jennifer Jurlando
Jennifer Jurlando is a Richmond-based poet and death worker. She is co-founder of the Chesterfield Poetry Collective, an adjunct instructor at VCU,and active in Richmond’s death community. Her writing on loss, survival, and worth has been published online at RVA Magazine and in the anthologies, Unspoken: Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth, and Nine Lives: A Life in Ten Minutes Anthology. She can be found around the state hosting mock home funerals, death cafes, and open mic nights.
Kim Fox
Kim Fox earned her BFA in Printmaking from the College of Charleston, SC, in1994. Her childhood in rural Western Pennsylvania informs her aesthetic, subject matter and choice of materials. Her work has been shown in Pittsburgh, PA, Providence, RI, Wheeling, WV, and Brooklyn, NY; She recently had work included in the exhibit “Stitching the Revolution: Quilts As Agents of Change” at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT and was included in the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts “Artist as Quiltmaker XX” - the second longest running art quilt exhibition in the world.
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