THE EXHIBITION
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Fragments
Aleksandra Scepanovic's journey to sculpture began in socialist Yugoslavia in the 1980s. Her professional path traversed the realms of archaeology, war zones during the 1990s Balkans conflict and interior design in NYC. Celebrating the bravery of continuation, snippets from her past inspire Aleksandra's artistic spirit. Today, Aleksandra collaborates with a collective of sculptors in her studio in Woodstock, NY (@atelierwdstk_hudsonvalley). Her sculptural work underscores Aleksandra's experience of migratory displacement and an enduring quest for a true likeness of identity, suspended between war, peace, and culture.
My Dear Heaven
Jade Khounpraseuth is an emerging fiction writer and is currently an English Education student at the University of North Georgia.
‘Hardscape Permanence’, ‘Senior Night in North Country’, & ‘Father, Herculean’
Peter Randazzo teaches history in upstate New York and runs the No Poet Peach blog on WordPress. He has a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies Education from SUNY New Paltz and a Master’s Degree in Curriculum Instruction from SUNY Empire. He has published in the anthologies of Eber & Wein, Hidden in Childhood, Penumbra, and has self-published "Dandelions & The Right Notes" on Amazon.
‘Swimming Class’, ‘Muscle Memory’, ‘Socrates’, ‘Eventuality’ & ‘Sonography’
Ruhi Jiwani's poetry has been published in The Eclectic Muse, The Binnacle, Off the Coast, Muse India, The Four Quarters Magazine, Femina, North Dakota Quarterly, Jubilat, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, New York Quarterly Magazine, and others. She has a Master’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is currently working on her first novel.
‘GIRL NEXT DOOR, These Birds In Winter; The Church On The Hill; Here's To The Yeast Of Us; Late Night Diner’
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa and Doubly Mad.
Jerry Can Fly
John Tynes is a writer, photographer, physician, and traveler living in Denver, Colorado.
‘A Song of Liberty’
Mia Moriarty is a young poet, songwriter, and aspiring filmmaker from southern New Hampshire. She is studying literature at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is influenced by poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Claude McKay, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Gillian Welch, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Paul Schrader, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ousmane Sembène, and Sergei Eisenstein. Mia has been writing poetry as a passion for many years and has been developing a distinct voice/style.
‘Lucan and the Muse’ & ‘Iqrit’
A. Z. Foreman is a literary translator, poet and language teacher currently working on a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages at the Ohio State University. He received his B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and his M.A. in Arabic Language from the University of Maryland. His translations from Latin, Arabic, Chinese, Old Irish, Occitan, Russian, Old English, Ukrainian and Yiddish have appeared in sundry anthologies, journals and a BBC radio broadcast. He sometimes writes his own poetry if it really comes to that. He divides his time between the bedroom, the bathroom and the kitchen. If you have a dog, he would very much like to pet it.
‘A View on the End of the World’
Sarah Crane is a lifelong reader and writer, unpublished unless you count college papers or medical journals. She is a youngish old person who has spent 35 years as a physician and parent living in Boston. She reads two novels at any given time, The New Yorker, and two papers delivered daily although she knows that is archaic but can't stop as it links her to her childhood at the table with her parents.
The Diary of James Eggleton: Deep Shit, Arkansas
Max Peña spent the best part of a quarter century working in corporate jobs in New York City. These experiences have inspired his creative work. He also holds a master's degree in creative writing from Edinburgh Napier University. He now lives in the south of France with his wife, dog, and cat.
‘The Will’
Rina M. Steen is a Danish-American author and artist. Ever the happily-ever-after enthusiast, she is an avid romance reader and writer with a penchant for the gothic genre. You can find her on social media at @rinamsteen.
‘The Inviolable It’
Hannah Messer is a current undergrad at the University of Southern California. She is studying Pre-law and English to eventually venture into politics and work as an attorney. A lover of words, Hannah will someday retire to the mountains to write.
‘Eclipse’
Autumn Farmer is an artist and writer studying Creative Media at Champlain College. Throughout her time on earth, she has used poetry as a coping mechanism and way of documenting every day life, however exciting or mundane. She has had several poems published in the Rutland Herald, as well as a creative nonfiction essay in the North Dakota Quarterly.
‘Tchaikovsky’s Click’, ‘When Does a Boy Become a Snarling Canine?’, & ‘You’re Officially A Woman’
Richie Magnia is a student at the University of North Texas, studying Creative Writing and Media Arts. While primarily working as a screenwriter, he got his start in short fiction and poetry. Working in various genres, he is able to meld them together to create cinematic prose and poetic cinema. Themes prominent in his work include: violence in men, cycles within families, and the connection between art and violence. Acting as president, he is the founder of UNT's Screenwriting Camp and has been featured in the North Texas Review, Mantis, and Wingless Dreamer. He can be found on Instagram @richiemagnia.
‘Laundry Manifesto, Unspoken’
Costello Keene is an undergraduate student at Slippery Rock University, where she majors in secondary education English and minors in writing. She has been previously published in multiple young writers' anthologies and acts as the assistant editor for The Slab magazine. Costello has been writing ever since she can remember and could not imagine a world without it.
‘Golden Torus’, ‘The Ceramic Tiger’, & ‘I, Sequoias’
Matt Gulley is a poet, playwright and fiction writer. He attended Wayne State University in Detroit and currently resides in Brooklyn with his partner Jenna. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Moon City Review, The Madrigal, The Minnesota Review and Consequence Forum. Find him @selfawareroomba on Twitter or @mattgulley.bsky.social on Bluesky.