Contributors
- Contributors
Cover
(Front) “All Black,” a portrait of Dwight Brown, 2020. Relief print, 24 in. x 36 in.
© Kat Wiese.
(Back) “Nine Nebraska Artists Wheat Paste Mural.” Photo courtesy of the Lux
Center for the Arts.
Katharen Wiese is an artist, curator, and community arts organizer living and working in the historic Everett Neighborhood of Lincoln, Nebraska. She holds a bfa in Studio Art from The University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions across the state including Kiechel Fine Art, Lux Center for the Arts, Tugboat Gallery, the Prairie Arts Center, and many more. Her work is a part of the Thomas P. Coleman print collection at the Sheldon Museum of Art. She was a 2018 nominee for the University of Nebraska Vreeland Howard Award and a four-time award winner of the Kimmel Harding Scholarship for Emerging Arts (2014–2018). Wiese has curated art shows across the state for the past four years with emphasis on sharing the work of artists of color.
Nine Nebraska Artists was designed to highlight the woodcut print medium and each artist’s unique vision. Nine Nebraskan artists were invited to design and carve their own woodblock for printing sessions at Constellation Studios. The black-and-white prints were attached with wheat starch paste to make composite murals at nine outdoor public art sites in Lincoln. The artwork featured in the photo was made by (top left to bottom right): Bart Vargas, Katharen Wiese, Sarah Rowe, Nathan Murray, Kyle Nobles, Gerardo Meza, Ryan Crotty, Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, and Byron Anway.
prose
Catina Bacote grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and is at work on a nonfiction book that chronicles the lasting impact of the illegal drug trade on her family and community. Her essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, december, The Common, The Sun, Southern California Review, and the anthology This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home. She holds an mfa from the University of Iowa, where she subsequently served as the Provost’s Visiting Writer in Nonfiction. Currently, she is a professor of creative writing at St. John’s University in Queens, New York.
Jasmine V. Bailey is the author of the poetry collections Alexandria and Disappeared and the chapbook Sleep and What Precedes It. She is the winner of the VanderMey Prize for Nonfiction from Ruminate and her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Cold Mountain Review, and the Writer’s Chronicle.
Christina Cooke, born in Jamaica, lives and writes in New York City. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former MacDowell fellow. Her work has previously appeared in the Caribbean Writer, PRISM International, and Epiphany, among others.
Kim Coleman Foote grew up in New Jersey and now calls Brooklyn home. She is the recipient of several writing fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Center for Fiction, and Illinois Arts Council, and recent residencies at MacDowell, the Anderson Center, and Hambidge. Her fiction, essays, and experimental prose have appeared in the Missouri Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Crab Orchard Review, Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a story collection fictionalizing her family’s experience of the Great Migration in the South and New Jersey, and a novel about Ghana and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. She received an mfa in creative writing from Chicago State University.
Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award and shortlisted for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. She teaches in the Creative Writing and Literature program at Stony Brook University.
Blair Hurley is the author of The Devoted, published by W. W. Norton, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her work is published or forthcoming in Electric Literature, Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, Guernica, Paris Review Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. She received a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
R. Tiara Malone is currently finding home in New Orleans, although a piece of her heart will always be in Chicago. She is in an on-again, off-again relationship with graduate school...
