Previous Artist Residents

Maria A. Pinto

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 Ehrlich

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.

Marianna Tessello

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.