Artists in Residence

Melissa Wyse is an art writer, fiction writer, and essayist. She has held fellowships and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation, and she is the recipient of an Individual Artist Ruby Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. Her work appears in publications including The Rumpus, Shenandoah, Momus, and Urbanite. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from American University and has taught writing and worked in the arts for many years. Wyse lives with her hus¬band in Brooklyn, New York. You can find her at melissawyse.com and @melissa.wyse.

At the age of one, Kate Lewis won a painting contest at the county fair, and she hasn't looked back since (that award-winning painting hangs in her studio). Originally from Tennessee, Lewis lives in Chicago with her husband and four children. She taught and wrote curricula about masterpieces at the Art Institute of Chicago for many years before making the move to set up a studio practice at home while raising her children. Lewis's paintings are in private collections around the world. This is her first illustrated book. You can see more of her work at katelewisart.com and @katelewisart.