Portuguese- American Writer Katherine Vaz, and Portuguese Artist Madalena Pequito In Conversation With Ana C.H. Silva This June I attended the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal. It was the first time I’ve ever been…
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Writing Loss in Bits and Pieces: An Interview with Eileen Vorbach Collins about Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss Interview by Diane Gottlieb To live is to experience loss. Whether it be the loss…
María DeGuzmán is a scholar, photographer, writer, and music composer. Her photographic work has been exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA, USA), Watershed Media Centre (Bristol, England), and Golden Belt Studios (Durham, NC, USA). She has…
Monique Islam Above, “Jackie Pregnant With Luna” Below, “Mom and Leilani in Stroller at Swapmeet” Monique Islam is a queer Chicanx/Bangladeshi American visual artist, educator, and community organizer, born in South El Monte, CA and currently based in…
Susan Calvillo Poetry Comics –expecting mother These poetry comics are excerpted from a memoir-in-verse, Twindemic: – expecting mother – to gain everything – who was I? – are you okay? – perfection Susan Calvillo is a Chinese/Mexican-American and a…
Interview by Sara Weiss Choose This Now is a novel-in-stories following two friends across twenty years as they grow up, grow apart, and grow together. It is about art, labor, love, pregnancy, and parenthood—and the role of friendship in forging…
Corynn Kokolakis Building Blocks Building Blocks, 72×48, oil and acrylic on panel, 2014 to 2023 Building Blocks is from my MFA thesis exhibition entitled M(y)otherwork that considers how the practices of mothering and painting influence and inform one another…
Eloísa Pérez-Lozano A Mother’s Milk Eloísa Pérez-Lozano is a photographer and artist whose photographs have been published in “The National Catholic Reporter,” “aaduna,” and “Montana Mouthful,” among others. Originally a poet, she was inspired to try visual…
Carolyn Schlam The Loveseat Carolyn Schlam is an award winning painter, sculptor and published author. Her books include THE CREATIVE PATH, THE ZEN OF ART and THE JOY OF ART series of books. Her artwork is primarily…
An Interview with Debut Memoirists Lauren Kay Johnson and Paige Towers Interview by Emily Avery-Miller The Fine Art of Camouflage by Lauren Kay Johnson is a debut memoir that explores what it means to be a woman in a…