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...
Anne Pedersen
During her life, Anne Pedersen has been: a film editor; camerawoman; documentary film producer and writer; journalist; and development executive for a major Hollywood studio. She is also the author of several books for children and young adults, one of which, Kidding Around Washington, D.C., won the Benjamin Franklin Award of Publishers Marketing Association in 1990. Presently, she is working on a collection of short fiction (for...
WAVES ALIVE |
Three hours of engagement, expansion, and creative progress.
September 19 | October 17 | November 21
. . .
What comes in waves? Our art, our words, our names, our experience.
Recent From Waves
-
what comes in waves Aug 29, 2026 -
-
-
-
