Snowed-In Residency Alumni

Rebecca is a poet, editor, & performance artist based in Portland, Maine, the land of her ancestors. Creative obsessions include scriptural mandates for women, the impact tipping practice has on self-esteem, female invisibility/immobilization after forty, ocean tides, & cicadas. A waitress by night, she writes for both the line cook & the academic, the platinum-card CEO at table nine and her fellow-server reciting specials.

Amanda Helms is a mixed Black writer and mother whose work explores themes of belonging and outsiderness, particularly as they pertain to her own biracial heritage. She believes that the lens of speculative fiction is particularly suited to exploring those and other uncomfortable truths. A native of the land-locked state of Colorado, she also sometimes depicts oceans as being full of monsters, but asks that coastal folks don't hold that against her.

Andrea Wenglowskyj is an artist/photographer/mother living in Buffalo, N.Y. Her artwork explores connections to her Ukrainian heritage such as language and traditions, as well as current events and customs in Andrea’s family, the diaspora, and the homeland. During the residency Andrea will be working on a long-term project about a Ukrainian summer camp in Western New York.

As a tap dancer, Alexis is a percussionist and jazz musician who lives in a world where dance and music are one. She enjoys playing with time and rhythm by juxtaposing meterless soundscapes and melodies with specific time signatures. Her work, which also employs original poetry or text and contemporary dance, often explores questioning identity, our relationships with our physical vessels and how that affects how we interact with the world and family legacy.

MYQ Farrow is a singer-songwriter, street performer and reluctant poet residing in Buffalo NY. Hobbies include telling people on Facebook to use Google before posting and relishing in black joy.

Delilah Jones is a non-binary mixed media collage artist, photographer and poet from Queens, New York. Most recently they completed their MPS in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute. Working with Papercut Press, they published “Portals.”

Kay is an award-winning visual artist and photographer from the Bronx NY, now based in Irvington, NJ. Her multi-medium works-on- paper, paintings, prints, assemblages, sculptures, and digitally collaged imagery to examine the intersections of race, identity, power, and violence in our society. Kay’s abstract and/or surreal portrayals of Black life and history are evocative narratives meant to elicit both emotional response and intellectual understanding of the human condition which she believes is the purpose of art.

Aaron Larget-Caplan is that rare musician who can move seamlessly between baroque, classical and contemporary music in a single performance. His “New Lullaby Project” partners with working composers to bring new music to young audiences in an accessible way.

Andrina is a Shinnecock writer, storyteller, actor, and educator who has spent her career exploring the various components of the human condition. Her recent collaboration with Facebook's "Uplifting Black Voices" project has garnered over 3.2 million views. Prior to the pandemic, her sketch team "Like Butter" had a weekend residency at The PIT theatre. In the summer of 2020, she directed a dramatic stage reading of Jeffrey Colvin's novel 'Africaville.' Andrina's solo work has been featured in festivals through NYC and the Tri-State area with her work being featured in the Diverse AF Festival, Solocom, and The Downtown Urban Theatre Festival. She is an alum of The Watermill Center Artist-in-Residence program.

Rebecca makes projects that address the body as an archive for personal and social memory. Her work has toured nationally and internationally and she has received residencies from Yaddo and Djerassi, and funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Clorox Foundation, and Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME). She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Trinity College in Hartford, CT and Guest Faculty in the Masters in Social Practice Art at University of Indianapolis.

Michelle is a photographer and painter, based in Buffalo,NY, whose most recent work From the Inside Out, is a collection of shared stories through multimedia, taking a closer look at domestic violence in Buffalo. Her creative work focuses on proximity; to connect with and view her subject at a close angle. Her passion for the arts stems from wanting to create a platform for social justice issues to be seen and heard through her work. One of her goals is to create public art to document, and create access to the arts for all, generating important dialogue, on relevant social justice issues. As a participant in the 2020/Vision: Women Artist in Western New York Exhibition, her work was installed at the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University. Michelle’s completion of the 2020 Cooperative Academy; a course designed to explore how to build worker-owned cooperative businesses, and learn the culture of cooperative economics, is the catalyst to her starting an arts based cooperative on the East Side of Buffalo, to provide access to the arts to underrepresented communities of color.

Marianna is a digital producer based in Brooklyn, researching practical ways in which communities can develop greater resiliency to climate grief and other forms of ecological anxiety. An Austin native via Tucson, she has over a decade of experience working with various nonprofits and news organizations as an educator and journalist.

Maria is a writer whose fiction has appeared or will appear in Frigg, Necessary Fiction, The Butter, Word Riot, and Dostoevsky Wannabe Cities: Boston. She studied Creative Writing and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brandeis University, where her work was awarded the Dafna Gesundheit Prize for Fiction. She has received fellowships from The Writers' Room of Boston and The Mastheads. When she's not reading fiction for The Drum or Harvard's Peripheries Journal, writing her second novel, teaching creative writing, or freelance editing, she can be found in the woods exercising her left brain functions by studying fungi.

Lara is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife, forthcoming from Red Hen Press in September 2020. Animal Wife won Red Hen’s Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara’s writing appears in F(r)iction, StoryQuarterly, and Hunger Mountain, among others, and she lives in Connecticut, where she is the director of marketing for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. More about Lara & her work can be found at www.LaraEhrlich.com.