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Amaranth Borsuk & Kate Durbin

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ABRA

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Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. She is author of The RavenousAudience (Akashic Books, 2009), E! Entertainment (Wonder), Kim's Fairytale Wedding (Spork, forthcoming), and co-author of Abra, forthcoming as an iPad app and artist book with the help of a grant from Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She has also written five chapbooks. She is founding editor of Gaga Stigmata, and her tumblr project, Womenas Objects, archives the teen girl tumblr aesthetic. 


Amaranth Borsuk’s books of poems include Handiwork (Slope, 2012); and Between Page and Screen (Siglio, 2012), a collaboration with Brad Bouse. Together with Kate Durbin and Ian Hatcher she is the recipient of an Expanded Artists' Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities at MIT. She currently teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell.