2024 Residents
Manizales, Colombia
Sonia Blank
Sonia Blank leads the philosophy program at Akademeia High School in Warsaw, Poland and guest lectures at the University of Warsaw. Her poetry explores place and identity, belonging and connection. From Poland, she completed her undergraduate degree in the US and a MLitt at St. Andrews in Scotland. She has translated between English and Polish for various publishers.
Maryn Gardner
Maryn Gardner is a scholar and aspiring poet. Her work focuses on climate change and speculative fiction, Indigenous and LatinX ecopoetics, and the relationship of slowness to environmental movements, neoliberal capitalism, and racialized logics of modernity. She is a PhD researcher at Duke University.
Erika Kielsgard
Erika Kielsgard is a writer, singer, and artist from the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Their debut chapbook, Lamprey (Harvard Square Press, 2024) was selected by Diane Seuss as winner of the 2023 International 3-Day Poetry Chapbook Contest. They have writing in Bone Bouquet, Cordella, Mantis, among many other venues. She holds an MFA from Brooklen College and a BA from George Mason.
Cami Kittredge
Cami Kittredge is a creative writer living in San Diego. Her work explores relationships between body and earth, reader and writer, in the context of political responsibility. She uses collage and found text techniques in her primarily hands-on approach to text formation. She graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in literature, writing, and gender studies.
Lyndsey Pannor
Lindsey Pannor is an artist and poet whose work can be found in Annulet, bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects, DIAGRAM, Nat. Brut, Tagvverk and elsewhere. "A Land of Easy Collective," their chaplet featuring recent work-in-progress, is out now from Belladonna* Collaborative. They are currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University.
kathy wu
kathy wu (she/they) is a cross-disciplinary artist, poet, and educator based in Providence, RI, Narragansett land. Her parents immigrated from post-Cultural Revolution China to Arizona to develop circuitry in the US. kathy works across textiles, code, book arts, and language. Her work is interested in grief, geology, nomenclatures, and histories of technology.