Lauren Camp

Lauren Camp is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press), which Publishers Weekly calls a “stirring, original collection.” Honors include the Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Camp is an emeritus fellow of Black Earth Institute, and her poems have appeared in Witness, Poet Lore, Kenyon Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Los Angeles Review and other journals in the US and abroad. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.

www.laurencamp.com

Sinem Dişli

Sinem Dişli was born in 1982 in Urfa, Turkey. She earned her B.F.A. degree in “Sculpture” at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir and her M.F.A degree in “Photography” at Marmara University, Istanbul. Between 2005 and 2008, she worked as an assistant curator at the photography department of Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. In 2008, she was awarded a scholarship to attend School of Visual Arts in New York, and also participated in visual arts programs at ICP and The Cooper Union. She was invited for residencies at Triangle Arts Association and ISCP in 2015 and Marble House Project in 2020. In addition to six solo exhibitions the artist had so far, her work was also shown internationally in numerous group exhibitions such as “A Pillar of Smoke” (The Rencontres d’Arles, 2018), “You Are What You Eat” (Krakow Photo Month, 2019). She was featured as one of the “7 Promising Photographers to Watch at At Arles Festival” by The New York Times in 2018, and was nominated for The Prix Pictet Award in 2019. Her last work, ‘Hollows and Mounds: A Take on Göbeklitepe’, is exhibited at the Ara Güler Museum and Leica Gallery Istanbul.

www.sinemdisli.com

Eugenie Doyle

Eugenie Doyle is the author of two novels, Stray Voltage (Frontstreet 2002), According to Kit (BoydsMills Press/Frontstreet 2009), a picture book, Sleep Tight Farm (Chronicle 2016) and many short stories, most of which reflect her forty years of farming experience. She lives and farms with her family in Vermont.

www.lastresortfarm.com/eugenie’sbooks

Dana Lyn

Dana Lyn is a classically-trained violinist, traditional Irish fiddler, and pianist based in New York City. Comfortable in multiple musical worlds ranging from classical to contemporary and improvisatory music, she has worked with a wide variety of artists, including theater artists Stew and Taylor Mac, actor-directors Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio, and avant musicians Hank Roberts and Billy Martin. She has contributed original music to theater productions and has composed film scores; as a composer, she has received commissions from the Brooklyn Rider, the Apple Hill String Quartet, the National Arts Council of Ireland and the New Orchestra of Washington. Her music has been performed at the Savannah Music Festival, the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Bridgehampton and Portland Chamber Music Festivals, Austin’s NMASS, the Rockport Celtic Festival, Oberlin Conservatory, the Stillwater Music Festival and at Carnegie Hall. Since 2013, she has worked with actor Vincent D’Onofrio, scoring his monologues with a six-piece band; this collaboration has released two albums. Her duo with guitarist Kyle Sanna has self-released three recordings and her sextet, Mother Octopus, will release its second album of original music later this year. Dana was an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2017 and a recipient of the 2018 American Composers Forum “Create” Commission. Dana is also a well-versed traditional Irish fiddler and currently plays in the band of the Tony-Award winning show, Hadestown.

www.danalynmusic.com

Zoë Schlanger

Zoë Schlanger is a writer and environmental journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Wired, The Nation, the New York Times, Quartz, the Fader, the Village Voice, and elsewhere. She covers how climate change and pollution impact human and non-human life. She is compelled towards stories that bear witness to the ways humans are not separate from our environments, despite what we might choose to believe—and which communities ultimately suffer most from the consequences of that disjointed thinking. Right now, she is developing a book-length work that explores the world of plant intelligence research and its implications for all of us. Zoë received the 2017 National Association of Science Writers' reporting award for a Newsweek cover story on environmental racism in the most polluted zip code in Detroit. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award, the Morley Safer Award for Outstanding Reporting, the National Academies of Sciences Award, and the American Geophysical Union journalism award for “Shallow Waters,” a series about how climate change, water politics, and rising heat is transforming life at the Texas-Mexico border. Zoë has been a guest in journalism classrooms at NYU and CUNY's journalism programs. She graduated with a BA from NYU, where she focused on ecology, political theory, and writing.

http://zoeschlanger.com/

Bethany Springer

Bethany Springer’s installations have been exhibited at venues including 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AR, Maryland Art Place (MAP) in Baltimore, Boston Center for the Arts, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT, the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, City Gallery East in Atlanta, the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Kansas City Artists Coalition, Full Tilt Creative Centre in Newfoundland, Canada, and The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE. Springer received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Georgia in 2001. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, an Artist Mini Grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a Community Research Award from the University of Arkansas Community and Family Institute, and a Research Grant from the Center for Digital Technology and Learning at Drake University in Des Moines. Springer has been in residence at Full Tilt Creative Centre and Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland, The Arctic Circle in the International Territory of Svalbard, Norway, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences in Georgia, and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, ME. Springer currently lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas where she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of Arkansas.

http://bethanyspringer.com/