Author Bios:

Laura Crehuet Berman is a Spanish-American artist. She is a Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, teaching in the Printmaking Department since 2002, and in 2024 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Canberra, Australia. Berman has exhibited in over 150 exhibitions internationally and her works are widely collected. She works with five galleries in the United States, and she has a longstanding publishing relationship with Pele Prints in St. Louis. Berman has worked as an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch (USA), Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Megalo Print Studios (Canberra, Australia), and Can Serrat Artist Center (Spain), among others, and she has been a visiting artist and lecturer at over 50 institutions around the world, including the 2024 Printopia Festival in Auckland, New Zealand. Her work has been featured in the books Contemporary American Printmakers, Printmaking at the Edge, A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, An Artist and A Mother, Do More Art: Print, and Color Theory: A Critical Introduction.

Owen Bullock’s most recent poetry collection is Pancakes for Neptune (Recent Work Press, 2023), following three previous poetry titles, five books of haiku, a bilingual edition of tanka, a novella, and a collaborative book. His research interests include haikai literature; arts and health; poetry and process; semiotics and poetry; prose poetry, and collaboration. His scholarly work has appeared in Antipodes, Journal of Creative Arts Therapies, Axon, Journal of New Zealand Literature, Ka Mate Ka Ora, Medical Humanities, New Writing, Qualitative Inquiry, Social Alternatives, TEXT and Westerly. Originally from Cornwall, he lived for many years in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and, since 2014, in Australia. He is Discipline Lead for Creative Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Canberra. His other interests include juggling, music, and chess.