Helen Imogen Field Miscarriage to Birth: Horny and Healing Helen Imogen Field (nee Williams) was serious about art in her teens but was deflected into science. She entered evening classes for oil portraiture at the Art Student’s League of…
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Heddy Breuer Abramowitz After Nursing Heddy Breuer Abramowitz is an artist living and working in Jerusalem. Born in Brooklyn, NY, to Holocaust survivors, she was a long-term resident of Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter. Mostly an observational painter, she…
Allison Blevins, Author of Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down? Interviewed by Melissa Joplin Higley MJH – When and why did you first start writing poems? AB – I…
Jennifer Jean on Where do you live? and Mojdeh Bahar on Silence and Lost Words: A Conversation on Translation MER is pleased to present an interview with two authors on their recent books of poetry in translation: Jennifer Jean…
An Interview with Jocelyn Jane Cox, Author of Motion Dazzle, a Memoir of Motherhood, Loss and Skating on Thin Ice. Interview by Sara Weiss In her debut memoir Motion Dazzle, former competitive figure skater and coach Jocelyn Jane Cox…
Sarah Lightman – “Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully” “Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully,” paintings by Sarah Lightman, is showing in the UK at Chester Visual Arts in July. Lightman explains that these are “…paintings…of familiar figures, once painted by ‘masters’ of…
An Interview with Domenica Ruta, Author of the Novel All the Mothers by Nicole Haroutunian About a chosen family of mothers who have children—initially unbeknownst to them—with the same man, All the Mothers by Domenica Ruta is by turns…
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…
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…