Artists Space

John Keene is the author of Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill, co-edited with Robert F. Reid-Pharr; Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas, and Punks: New & Selected Poems, which received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He is a member of the African Poetry Book Fund editorial board.

Laura Mullen is the author of nine books. A collaboration with composer Nathan Davis—"a Sound uttered, a Silence crossed"—premiered in La Jolla in 2015. She is the translator of Véronique Pittolo’s HERO, and her most recent collection, EtC, was published by Solid Objects. Her website is: www.afteriwasdead.space