Aaron Landsman is an Abrons Arts Center Social Practice Artist-in-Residence and a recent Guggenheim Fellow. His projects have been presented in New York at Abrons, The Chocolate Factory Theater, EMPAC, and HERE. He is in year three of a 20-year art and activism endeavor called Perfect City, which includes mapping, writing, walks, performances and workshops. He is making a new performance called Language Reversal, about translation and oligarchy, with collaborators in Serbia, Nigeria and Brazil. He has performed with ERS, Richard Maxwell, Tory Vazquez, Julia Jarcho and Andea Kleine. His writing is published in Theater, Hobart, Painted Bride Quarterly and other journals.

Sophie Lewis is the author of a book on family abolition, ‘Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family,’ as well as academic articles (e.g. in ‘Signs’; ‘Dialogues in Human Geography’) and non-academic ones (e.g. ‘Salvage Quarterly,’ ‘New Inquiry,’ ‘Boston Review,’ ‘The New York Times.’) She studied at Oxford, The New School and Manchester University and has a PhD in geography. Her German-English translations include ‘A Brief History of Feminism’ (Antje Schrupp), ‘Communism for Kids’ (Bini Adamczak) and ‘Other and Rule’ (Sabine Hark and Paula Villa). She’ll be speaking in Philly, Boston, NYC and all over England on her book tour in May.

Dixon Place Literary Programs are supported, in part, with private funds from the Axe Houghton Foundation, with public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.