Sylvie Stein

Art History Student

Sylvi Stein is an art history student and research assistant at Columbia University in the City of New York. She is a recipient of the Laidlaw Scholar Fellowship for her work in art research, studying public art in NYC and its intersections with both community movements and the present-day art world. Her work has been published in Rattle, The Journal of Asia, and ACA’s Camping Magazine. She is currently working under the contemporary artist Laurie Simmons.

Anna Seaman

Contemporary art writer and editor, curator at MORROW collective

Anna Seaman is an arts writer, cultural journalist, and independent curator from the UK. Graduating in English Literature (2002) from the University of the West of England, she went on to work in London for a series of leading magazines and newspapers. In 2008, she moved to the UAE as part of the foundational team for The National newspaper. From 2011-2013, she was the editor for Brownbook Magazine; an urban cultural journal focusing on arts, design, architecture, and culture for the Middle East. Following that, she returned to The National as the Visual Arts writer, spending extensive amounts of time with galleries, institutions and artist studios in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah. Since 2019, she has been Arts Editor for Hadara Magazine, as well as cementing her position as one of the foremost arts and cultural commentators in the region. She is an experienced editor and has co-authored several prominent publications in the arts and cultural field. In 2018, she began curating art exhibitions in Dubai and in 2021, Anna co-founded MORROW collective, an NFT curatorship dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional fine and conceptual art, and blockchain crypto art.

Ana María Caballero

Literary Artist

Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American literary artist whose work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. She’s the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, a Future Arts Writer Award, a Sevens Foundation Grant and has been a finalist for numerous other literary and arts prizes, including the prestigious Kurt Brown, Vassar Miller and MAXXI Bvlgari Prize in the Digital Sector. 

Caballero is the author of Mammal (forthcoming via Steel Tool Books, 2024); Cortadas (forthcoming from S/W Ediciones, 2025); A Petit Mal (Black Spring Press, 2023); Tryst (Alexandria Publishing, 2022); mid-life (Finishing Line Press, 2016); Reverse Commute (Silver Birch Press, 2014); Entre domingo y domingo (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2023 and 2014).  

Her Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominated work has been published extensively and exhibited as fine art at museums and leading international venues, such as the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, bitforms, Office Impart, Poetry Society of America, Gazelli Art House, New World Center and Times Square. She became the first artist to sell a digital poem at live auction in Spain and has released digital poems in partnership with TIME, Diario ABC and Playboy and is currently a contributing writer for Forbes, reporting on Web3 culture. 

Widely recognized as a digital poetry pioneer whose own practice is transforming the way language is exhibited, experienced and transacted, she’s also the cofounder of literary gallery theVERSEverse, short-listed for the Lumen Prize and the Digital Innovation in Art Award.

Caballero graduated with a magna cum laude degree from Harvard University. As an MFA candidate in Poetry at Florida International University she was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets Prize. 

S. Kenan

Art Writer

Kenan is a non-binary writer whose body of work is informed by the intersecting issues of climate crisis, reparative justice and gender equity. With an MA in History, Race & Gender, their work has aired on National Public Radio, and appeared in, among others, CALYX, Rain Taxi, NewPages and numerous anthologies. They have been a recipient of a McKnight Fellowship and their work has received multiple awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Langston Thomas

Art & Tech Journalist

Langston Thomas is a writer, photographer, and musician based in Seattle. As a culture and tech journalist, he works at the forefront of cutting-edge media, covering the extensive and ongoing evolutions of the digital art and music spaces, among other unique internet subcultures. Operating from a foundation in content production, public relations, and audio engineering, he approaches storytelling from a multimedia perspective with the intent to build meaningful and lasting intellectual property.

Ola Kalejaye

Writer

Ola Kalejaye is a Nigerian-American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He is an alumnus of Duke University (BA) and The American Film Institute (MFA). Ola first became interested in the blockchain art space in mid-2021, intrigued by its potential as an alternate avenue for creatives to secure fair compensation for their work. Ola’s most recent work explores the intersections of art, entertainment, creative industries, and emerging technologies.

Ola is currently based out of Portland, Oregon with his wife and creative partner, Rachel, and their miniature goldendoodle, Astro. The duo has most recently launched a new electronic music project, Lola Jak.

Stephanie Rudig

Freelance designer, illustrator, and journalist

Stephanie Rudig is a graphic designer, artist, and writer based in Washington, D.C. She embraces a multidisciplinary practice and is known for being both a participant in and observer of D.C.’s creative scene, working as a critic and arts reporter for local publications. Influenced by language and wordplay, her visual work is often witty, cerebral, and a bit mischievous. She works across a range of media and techniques, including hand drawn pen and ink line work, gouache and watercolor painting, vector illustration, photo collage, printmaking, bookbinding, and paperfolding. Stephanie is also a co-founder, designer, and writer for The InQueery, a satire publication that assumes the voice of a “queer research corporation” and publishes its findings each month. In 2022, The InQueery published a collection of stories for its first print issue, and the second issue will be published in fall of 2023. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 2010. Her graphic design work has been honored with a Webby award and an AIGA 50 award, and her street art project and blog “SHE-SPAN” was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress.

Mayookh Barua

Art & Fiction Writer

Mayookh Barua (she/he/they) is a Los Angeles-based writer from India who is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Southern California. His work explores sexuality, art, mythology and family through a queer South-Asian voice. A 2023 Roots.Wounds.Words Non-Fiction fellow, his works have appeared in The Audacity by Roxane Gay, Espace Art Actuel, The Third Eye, Mezosfera Magazine and elsewhere.

Linda Wei

Artist and Filmmaker

Linda Wei is an emerging writer and filmmaker who investigates multicultural histories, emotional metamorphoses, and alternate universes. Born in rural China and later rooted in the Midwest, her unique experiences as a first-generation immigrant adopted into a Black and mixed-race family fueled her storytelling beyond spoken language, where she could harmonize her evolving realities. Currently pursuing an MFA in Film Directing at the California Institute of the Arts, Linda draws on her background in International Affairs from Georgetown University to craft personal narratives with sociopolitical relevance. As an artist and activist, she’s committed to supporting underrepresented communities and amplifying their stories through cinema. Linda mentors teens with WriteGirl LA and served as a 2022 Sundance Collab Community Leader. Her ultimate goal is to connect with resilient communities and ensure their stories receive the recognition they deserve.