Rafael Sánchez, recent exhibitions include ‘Life of a Flower -Rafael Sánchez with Ellen Cantor, Jim Fletcher, Mark Morrisroe and Gail Thacker’, Gallerie Max Mayer (Düsseldorf, 2019); ‘Tree of Heaven’, Marlborough Gallery (NYC, 2018). Recent performances include ‘For a Reading Yet Unread’ for Visual AID’s ‘Last Address Walk’, St. Vincent’s Triangle Park (2018). ‘Novenas for a Lost Hospital’, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (2019). Visual art and performances have been presented at Artists Space, ICA, Boston, Jaclie 60, Ex-Teresa, Thread Waxing Space, Participant Inc, MoCA, Miami, El Museo del Barrio.

Author of 19 books of fiction, poetry, memoir, biography, and a book of Nuer oral poetry, Terese Svoboda published Great American Desert (stories) in 2019. Winner of a Guggenheim, a Bobst Fiction Prize, an Iowa Poetry Prize, a NEH translation grant, an O. Henry Award for the short story, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, 3 NYFA fellowships, a Pushcart Prize for an essay, a Bellagio libretto residency, and a Jerome Foundation Video Award, she also wrote WET, an opera that premiered at Disney Hall. Theatrix, a new book of poetry, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in 2021.

This Dixon Place Literary Program is 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.