Becky Brown is an artist and writer using found images, objects and texts.  She was born in Manhattan, moved to Brooklyn and currently lives in the Bronx.  Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Drawing Center, NYC; Fort Gondo Complex for the Arts, St. Louis, MO; and Religare Arts Initiative, Delhi, India.  She received her MFA from Hunter College and her BA from Brown University and has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, I-Park Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, among others.  Her art criticism is published in Art in America and the Brooklyn Rail.  This past fall, she and poet Jen Currin co-organized “Headaches and Mysteries,” a collaboration between five poets and visual artists exploring five poetic forms.

Andrea Kleine is a writer, choreographer & performance artist. She is a five-time MacDowell Colony fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her debut novel, CALF, was described by Publishers’ Weekly as ‘‘unsettling, scary, and often brilliant’’ and named one of their Best Fiction Books of 2015.