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Gregory de la Haba is a noted American interdisciplinary artist. A skilled painter with a pedagogical lineage that stretches back to Jacques Louis David, he is an exemplary practitioner of fine art whose conceptual practice resists categorization. De la Haba’s work explores themes of addiction, contemporary notions of masculinity, and Duende, a heightened state of emotion, expression, and authenticity derived from pure artistic expression. It is from this place that the artist unlocks his true self—both in art and in life.

Since 2008, de la Haba has produced art-related ventures through his creative platform Bodega de la Haba. Notable projects include hosting literary events with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright, curating a 40-year survey for celebrated artist Judy Rifka and producing and narrating Terrence Browne’s Irish art history musical, Hazel: Made In Belfast which premiered at Carnegie Hall. A devoted patron of the arts, de la Haba established the Carlos Collazo Scholarship at Artes Plasticas in San Juan, PR, in honor of the artist and teacher who died of AIDS in 1989.

De la Haba’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Salzach Biennial, Salzburg Arts Festival, Queens Museum, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Contemporary Istanbul, Design Week Milan, Mykonos Biennale, SCOPE Art Show, Art Miami, and Art Southhampton. In 2009 de la Haba was the Artist-in-Residence at Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where he firmly cemented his notoriety with a provocative body of work.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, de la Haba’s writings, and artworks have been featured in The New York Times, Southampton Review, Rizzoli’s Irish America, New York Arts Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, and Quiet Lunch. From 2014 to 2018 the artist co-owned and published Whitehot Magazine and Quiet Lunch. Currently, de la Haba writes for the art and culture magazine, Portray. In the Spring of 2022, his memoir, Curriculum Vitae: A Journey from Montauk, Elsewhere and Back, will be published by C&R Press. The new year will also bring his art to Germany, Korea, and Switzerland.

A native New Yorker, Gregory de la Haba lives in the city with his wife, Teresa, and their two sons Matthew and Sebastian. His art is represented by Pulpo Gallery in Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany, and Geuer & Geuer Art GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany. 

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Heidi Seaborn is the author of [PANK] 2020 Poetry Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press, 2019) and the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks, as well as chapbooks, Finding My Way Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Once a Diva (dancing girl press, 2021).Since Heidi started writing in 2016, she’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her work has recently appeared in American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal, on the board of Tupelo Press and holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU. heidiseabornpoet.com

Jacob M. Appel is the author of the fifteen books including Millard Salter’s Last Day (2017) and Amazing Things Are Happening Here (2018). His short fiction has appeared in more than two hundred literary journals and has prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story and the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
More at: www.jacobmappel.com

Jacob Paul is the author of two previous novels, A Song of Ilan (Jaded Ibis, 2015) and Sarah/Sara (Ig, 2010), which Poets & Writers named one of 2010’s five best first fictions. His collaborations have led to the fine art books, Home for an Hour (Otherwise, 2014) and Feed Mayonnaise to Tuna (Otherwise, 2016). His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Western Humanities Review, Green Mountains Review, Massachusetts Review, Seneca Review, Mountain Gazette and USA Today’s Weekend Magazine as well as on therumpus.net, fictionwritersreview.com and numerocinqmagazine.com. He teaches creative writing at High Point University in North Carolina.

More at www.jacobgpaul.com/bio

See Paul’s latest Novel, Last Tower to Heaven, here!

Janet Sarbanes is the author of the short story collection Army of One, hailed by Bomb as a “stingingly funny fiction debut.” Her new collection, The Protester Has Been Released, is out by C & R Press now. Recent short fiction appears in Black Clock, P-Queue, Entropy and North Dakota Quarterly. Sarbanes has also published art criticism and other critical writing in museum catalogues, anthologies, and journals such as East of Borneo, Afterall, Journal of Utopian Studies and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at CalArts.

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Poet, playwright, and essayist Jeffrey Skinner was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He served as the June, 2015 Artist in Residence at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015 he was awarded one of eight American Academy of Arts & Letters Awards, for exceptional accomplishment in writing. His most recent prose book, is The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets, and in 2017 he published two poetry books: Chance Divine, which won the Field Prize (Oberlin College Press), and I Offer This Container: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry).

Skinner has published six previous collections: Glaciology, which was chosen in 2012 as winner in the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition, and published by Southern Illinois University press in Fall, 2013. Late Stars (Wesleyan University Press), A Guide to Forgetting (a winner in the 1987 National Poetry series, chosen by Tess Gallagher, Graywolf Press), The Company of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series), Gender Studies, (Miami University Press), and Salt Water Amnesia (Ausable Press). He has edited two anthologies, Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance; and Passing the Word: Poets and Their Mentors. His numerous chapbooks include Salt Mother, Animal Dad, which was chosen by C.K. Williams for the New York City Center for Book Arts Poetry Competition in 2005. Over the years Skinner’s poems have appeared in most of the country’s premier literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, FENCE, Bomb, Ploughshares, and The Georgia, Iowa, and Paris Reviews.

Skinner’s writing has also gathered grants, fellowships, and awards from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts (1986, & 2006), the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, Vermont Studios, and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown. His work has been featured numerous times on National Public Radio. In 2002 Skinner served as Poet-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut.
He is President of the Board of Directors, and Editorial Consultant, for Sarabande Books, a literary publishing house he cofounded with his wife, poet Sarah Gorham. He is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and English at The University of Louisville.

See Skinner’s latest chapbook, White Boys From Hell, here!

Joan Frank is the author of twelve books of literary fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent novel, THE OUTLOOK FOR EARTHLINGS, was a ForeWord Reviews book of the month. Her novella collection, WHERE YOU’RE ALL GOING, won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction and the gold Independent Publishers Book Award for Literary Fiction. Her collected travel essays, TRY TO GET LOST, won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. Pending is a new collection of essays, LATE WORK: A LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WAS READING. A MacDowell Fellow and recipient of many honors, Joan also reviews literary fiction and nonfiction for the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and similar venues. She lives in California’s North Bay Area. Read more about the author on their website.

John Estes directs the Creative Writing Program at Malone University in Canton, Ohio where he lives with his wife and sons. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri, where he concentrated in poetics and environmental literature. Recent poems have appeared in Tin House, New Orleans Review, The Southern Review, Iron Horse, and AGNI. His first book, Kingdom Come, was published in 2011 by C&R Press, and he is author of two chapbooks: Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and Swerve (PSA, 2009), which was selected by C.K. Williams for a National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. Continue Reading →

Reed has been published in (selected) Paper Magazine, the New York Press, Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Vice Magazine, Out Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, the PEN Poetry Series, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Believer, Slate and Harpers; he’s been included in four anthologies, including Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin). He’s author of the novels, A Still Small Voice (Delacorte Press), The Whole (MTV Books / Simon & Schuster), and of the dramatic work, All The World’s A Grave (Plume) and the illustrated, nonfiction work, Tales of Woe (MTV Press). Free Boat is his first book of poetry. JohnReed

Jonathan Katz, Ph.D., is Professor of Practice in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at George Mason University.  He has directed the state arts agency in Kansas, the children’s museum in Denver, and the graduate arts management program at the U. of Illinois-Springfield. As CEO of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), he guided an association whose members currently invest over $500 million of public funds annually in artistic and cultural activities, he co-founded the nation’s Arts Education Partnership, and he helped create Poetry Out Loud. He consults extensively on strategic planning and leadership development, chairs the board of American Poetry Review, serves as Strategic Advisor to the Innovation Collaborative: Networking Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Education, and lives in beautiful Takoma Park, MD, with his muse, Terri Moreland. In addition to Lottery of Intimacies, C&R Press has published his chapbook, Love Undefined, and full-length collection, Objects in Motion.