Past Residents

  Layla Benitez-James is an artist and translator living in Alicante whose poems and translations have appeared in The Acentos Review, Anomaly, Guernica, Waxwing, Revista Kokoro, La Galla Ciencia, and elsewhere. Her audio essays about translation can be found at … Continued

  My name is María Lujan Vivas. I’m 23 years old, I’m from La Plata, Argentina. I am a plastic artist. I’ve done theater and film sets, installations, performance, ceramics, and visuals. I like to experiment with different supports and … Continued

Lauren Cardenas is currently the Assistant Professor of Printmaking, University of Mississippi, Oxford. She is a studio artist who focuses on print media. She was the editor and founder of PIECRUST Magazine (2011-14), which was a biannual art and literary … Continued

  I am a computational biologist working in cancer drug discovery. In the past, I’ve been a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at Tel Aviv University, in San Salvador and in Manhiça, Mozambique. During my PhD studies … Continued

  Vaughn M. Watson is a New York-based emerging writer. He has appeared on NPR and has work published in Flying South and Newtown Literary, among other journals. He was the winner of the 2016 Winston-Salem Writer’s Flying South competition … Continued

I work in a variety of mediums all circulated around sexual exploration. Although I am very dedicated to this subject, which is central to my being – I am reluctant to use the word artist because I think my craft … Continued

Marie Mons (b. 1984, Paris) is a visual artist based between Paris and Brussels. She graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques Penninghen. Experimenting with formal techniques as well as personality and the physical body, Marie Mons produces extremely versatile … Continued

  Born in the city of Buenos Aires to an Argentinian mother and a German father, at the age of 4 I moved with my family to Mexico City, and later, to Guadalajara, where I attended primary school.  I internalized … Continued

Tomás Browne (Viña del Mar, Chile, 1982) I want to bring back the writer’s trauma as a boy with language problems and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. This quest led me to find protection in poetry and explore such notions as nonsense, … Continued