(27) Open Studios

D. Allen is a queer poet and multidisciplinary artist living in Minneapolis, MN. They are a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota Creative Writing MFA program, a recipient of the 2017 Minnesota Emerging Writers Grant from The Loft Literary Center, and a 2017 Lighthouse Works Fellow. D's work has recently appeared in District Lit, Connotation Press, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Their current manuscript examines the inner life of a queer, disabled, genderqueer body through the lens of grief and intimacy.

Jared Buckhiester is an artist living and working in New York City. He has a BFA in photo from Pratt and an MFA in Sculpture from Bard College. He makes everything but painting, combining biographical psychosexual material with larger social and political narratives that often point toward a culminating violence. Buckhiester has had exhibitions at Envoy Enterprises; Feature Inc.; Gallerie Du Jour, Paris; Thomas Rehbein, Cologne; and at The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in Lille France. Jared has been the recipient of awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The Albert K Murray Foundation, and The Dedalus Foundation for the Arts.

Leah Guadagnoli (27) lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in Visual Art from Rutgers University in 2014. She has had solo exhibitions at 247365 in New York and at Sadie Halie Projects in Minneapolis. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at White Columns, Harper's Books, Asya Geisberg, Cuevas Tillard, Hero Beach Club, and Library Street Collective, among others. In 2016 Guadagnoli was a recipient of the Vermont Studio Centers full Fellowship Award and attended Yaddo in 2015. She is the founder of the Maple Terrace Artist Residency Program. Her work has been reviewed in New American Paintings, Art F City, Maake Magazine, The Brvtalist, Little Star Weekly, and by Maria Brito.

Kate Moses is the author of Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, published in sixteen languages and recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and a Prix des Lectrices de Elle, and Cakewalk, A Memoir, as well as the co-editor of two award-winning anthologies of essays on motherhood, Mothers Who Think and Because I Said So ” the offspring of Salon Mothers Who Think, of which she was a founding editor during the internets infancy. The Fayum Portraits, a novel inspired by a 2000-year-old memorial painting, and Honeymoon in Pompeii, a collection of short stories, are in progress. She has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship, an American Book Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and residencies from the Djerassi Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Karuna. A native San Franciscan and longtime teacher and editor, Kate now lives in Essex, New York and works with writers privately through Birds & Muses.