Ellen McLaughlin
Ellen McLaughlin is an award-winning writer and playwright whose plays have received numerous national and international productions, including Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians and Oedipus, and most recently, the critically acclaimed Septimus and Clarissa. Ellen is also an actor and has worked on and off Broadway as well...
Carrie Nassif
Carrie Nassif is a clinical psychologist who is prone to binge writing episodes and obsessive-compulsive photographic behaviors. She has an affinity for the minimalist landscapes of the rural Midwest where she lives with her wife and son; where there’s room in her head to patch words into poetry quilts and yarn enough to mend her memoir comforters. Several of her poems have been published in journals and anthologies, and she keeps a...
Shauna Osborn
Shauna Osborn is a Comanche/German mestiza who works as an artist, wordsmith, and community organizer. In 2013, she received a National Poetry Award from the New York Public Library. She is forever indebted to their social media coordinator for placing one of her winning poetry entries on their blog feed between a photo of David Tennant reading and an announcement for a William Gibson event, which simultaneously fueled her sense of...
Angelique Palmer
Angelique Palmer is a writer, teacher and performer from Miami by way of New Orleans; she now calls Northern Virginia home. A Creative Writing graduate from Florida State University, she found slam poetry through Will “Da Real One” Bell and was born and raised on the Literary Café and Poetry Lounge stage, becoming a “Café Baby.” As an Elementary School Creative Writing Instructor at the American Poetry Museum in Washington, DC, she...
Alicia Payne
Alicia Payne is a professional actor and published writer whose credits encompass theatre, film, television and radio. She’s also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African American Music. Her professional memberships include ACTRA, CAEA, Dramatists Guild of America and Playwrights Guild of Canada. As a professional simulator, she provides feedback to learners in corporate settings through PlaysthatWork. As an artist educator, she...
This month’s edition of WAVES is dedicated to our creative sisters whose spirits burn for their art while they are in the fight of their lives.
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How is artistic expansion the antidote to our worldly challenges?
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This time, there is no setting our art aside. This time, there is no setting our art asunder. This is our time.
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