Bird Ladder Sky Snake

Rikki Ducornet is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, Eros, tyranny and the transcendent capacities of the creative imagination. She is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist, and her fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. Her art has been exhibited internationally, most recently with Amnesty International’s traveling exhibit I Welcome, focused on the refugee crisis. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, the Prix Guerlain, a Critics’ Choice Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her novel The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Paris.

Fowzia Karimi is a writer and visual artist whose work weaves fable, dream, memory, and natural history, while exploiting the interplay between text and image on the page. She is the author and illustrator of Above Us the Milky Way (Deep Vellum, 2020), a personal abecedarium chronicling war, migration, beauty, longing and loss. Karimi has illustrated both fiction and essay, including Small Pieces (Dalkey Archive Press, 2023) by Micheline Aharonian Marcom, and Faust (Deep Vellum, 2021) by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner. She is the recipient of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, the Balcones Prize for Fiction, and the Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Prize. She lives in Denton, Texas.

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