A Massachusetts native, Katie Fesuk was a 2006 Georgia Author of the Year Award nominee for her chapbook, If Not an Apple (La Vita Poetica Press). She is a teacher and Poet in Residence at The Walker School, and she studied English and Creative Writing in the doctoral program at Georgia State University. She served as Creative Writer in Residence at the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, and her poems can be found in Five Points, Slant, Bloodroot, Poet Lore, Chattahoochee Review, Water~Stone, Caesura, Rock & Sling, No Tell Motel, Atlanta Review, Literary Mama, Kennesaw Review, Sea Stories, and Wicked Alice, among others. She was a 2007 finalist in the Agnes Scott College Writer's Festival. She lives outside Atlanta with her husband, Damian, and two small children, Sawyer and Mary Katherine.
Diana Blackwell is a self-taught artist in Berkeley. She works in many media, including charcoal, acrylics, papier mache, collage, block printing, monoprinting, and digital photography. Her subjects include abstractions and imaginary scenes, as well as all the traditional foci of representation: human figures and portraits, still life, landscape, and religious, especially Christian, iconography.
Blackwell's colorful, happy-looking monoprints are a regular feature at Mignonne Décor in Berkeley. Her online gallery is www.zhibit.org/diana_blackwell. She has shown work in California, Massachussetts, Missouri, and Nebraska. Her digital photography can be seen at
www.flickr.com/diana_blackwell.
Blackwell has worked as an artists' model for nineteen years, including eight years as the staff model at Columbia College (Columbia, MO) and eleven years as a full-time member of the Bay Area Models Guild. Blackwell is also a Guild administrator and created the Guild's current website www.bayareamodelsguild.org. She also created the world's only website about late British character actor James Booth, www.jamesbooth.org. Blackwell is a founding member of the dark electronic band Odor of Pears. She has published feature articles and reviews in Matter, Trouser Press, The Women's Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Vegetarian Times, The Animals' Agenda, and many others. She has a B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.