Katie Farris’s most recent book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), was listed as Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry Books for 2023. She’s also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls (Marick Press, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019), and the co-translator of many works, including A Country in Which Everyone’s Name is Fear, which was one of World Literature Today’s Notable Books of 2022. She’s a Pushcart Prize winner.

Daphne Kalotay’s books include the award-winning novels Russian Winter, Sight Reading, and Blue Hours and two story collections: Calamity and Other Stories, shortlisted for The Story Prize, and The Archivists, winner of the Grace Paley Prize. Published in over twenty languages, her work has won fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Colleen Asper is a painter, writer, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work compresses the painted body, the speaking body, and the performing body into one space as a way of increasing the friction that exists between stillness and motion, flatness and embodiment, language and materiality. The rub of these contradictions creates new possibilities for what the body can do.

Asper has had solo and two person exhibitions at galleries that include 17Essex, New York, NY; On Stellar Rays, New York, NY; P!, New York, NY; Art Production Fund Lab, New York, NY; Gallery 650, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; and Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and abroad at institutions that include The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Art in General, New York, NY; Queens Museum, Queens, NY; The Luminary, St. Louis, MO; New Galerie, Paris, France; OED Gallery, Cochin, India; Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hanover, Germany; and Lošinj Museum, Mali Lošinj, Croatia. Her work has been reviewed in publications that include Artforum, Art in America, frieze, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Additionally, she has contributed writing to publications such as Art Practical, The Brooklyn Rail, Lacanian Ink, and Paper Monument. Asper has been a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Wendy’s Subway (with the Art Workers’ Inquiry), Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, and the Jentel Artist Residency.