ABOUT THE READERS

ASH WYATT
Ash Wyatt (b.1985 Spokane, WA) is a primarily self taught bi-racial Mexican American Indigenous artist. From Spokane, currently living in Portland, Oregon, she is an early career artist who has done some exciting collaborations with woman owned ceramic studio and workshop, The Granite, and handcrafted tile manufacturer, Tempest Tile Works. She has multiple pieces within the Regional Art & Culture Council’s Public Art Collection in Portland. Ash has recently completed a large-scale commission at a new luxury high-rise building in Portland, and is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University.
See more from the artist: @ghost_tooth & ashwyatt.com

FRANCESCA CAPONE
Francesca Capone is a materials designer, visual artist, writer, and educator. Her work is primarily concerned with the creation of materials and a poetic consideration of their meaning. She is interested in how tactile forms simultaneously serve as functional surfaces for daily life and as a mode of communication or symbol within the cultural paradigm. Her interdisciplinary practice takes the shape of visual art exhibitions, readings/performances, and the book form. Her books Woven Places (Some Other Books, 2018), Text means Tissue (2017), and Weaving Language (information as material 2018, Self Published 2015) focus on textile poetics. They are in the library collections at the MoMA Library and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery in London, LUMA/Westbau in Switzerland, Textile Arts Center in NYC, and 99¢ Plus Gallery in Brooklyn. She has been an artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Andrea Zittel's A-Z West. Her academic work includes lectures and workshops at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Reed College, University of Washington, and Alberta College of Art and Design, among others. Represented by Nationale, Portland, US.
See more from the artist: @franny_capone & francescacapone.com

SAM LOHMANN
Sam Lohmann lives in Vancouver, Washington with his family, and their three cats. He works as an academic librarian. His books and chapbooks include In a Saint's Ashtray (The Magnificent Field, 2019), Day Use Area (Couch Press, 2014), Unless As Stone Is (eth press, 2014), The Long Face (Editions Plane, 2013), Stand on this picnic bench and look north (Publication Studio, 2011), Lines on Canvas (c_L, 2011), and Onlooking (Airfoil, 2009). A new book of short prose called Strung Along is forthcoming from Sonorous Anchorite press of Tucson. In collaboration with James Yeary, he illustrated House Music (Division Leap, 2014) and co-wrote Rolling in the Easy Circumstances (Great Fainting Spells, 2012). He formerly published the handmade poetry fanzine Peaches and Bats, and (with David Abel) co-published Airfoil Chapbooks. Since 2008 he has been a co-organizer of the long-running Spare Room reading series.
Read some of his work Hot Pink Magazine.