Wallis Hughes, Emily: - Emily Wallis Hughes is a poet and editor who grew up in Agua Caliente, California, a small town in the Sonoma Valley. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Elderly, Gigantic Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Menage, Painted Bride Quarterly, A Women's Thing, ZAUM, and other little magazines. She co-edited Slovene avant-garde poet Jure Detela's Moss & Silver, translated by Raymond Miller with Tatjana Jamnik (Ugly Duckling Presse). She earned an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing-Poetry from the University of California, Davis, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. Emily currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers-New Brunswick and composition at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She lives in Brooklyn, where she volunteers for Fence Books and Ugly Duckling Presse.Riggs, Sarah: - Sarah Riggs is a writer, artist, filmmaker and translator, www.sarahriggs.org. She has published poetry books with 1913 Press, Burning Deck, Reality Street, Ugly Duckling Presse, Chax, Editions de l'attente, and Le Bleu du Ciel as well as chapbooks with Belladonna* and Contrat Maint, and critical essays with Routledge. Forthcoming are a show of drawings for Laynie Browne's Amulet Sonnets (forthcoming also as a book with Solid Objects) and translations of Etel Adnan's Time from the French with Nightboat forthcoming 2019. Producer of The Tangier 8 and director of Six Lives, Riggs is currently working on a film of New York dancer choreographers including Daria Faïn, Emily Johnson, and Douglas Dunn. She has taught at Columbia and NYU in Paris, as well as Pratt in Brooklyn, and is working with Mirene Arsanios on the web publication of "Footprint Zero,"a project of especially New York and Morocco-based artists responding to the environmental crisis, for the non-profit Tamaas, www.tamaas.org.
