Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. She is author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books), E! Entertainment (Blanc Press Diamond Edition, forthcoming), the conceptual fashion magazine The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and, with Amaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming).

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork, selected by Paul Hoover as winner of the 2011 Slope Editions Prize, the chapbook Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), and, together with programmer Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012), a digital pop-up book of poems. She is the 2011 recipient of the Gulf Coast prize in poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky. Her poems, collaborations, translations, and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Aufgabe, The Destroyer, The Offending Adam, and The Society for Curious Thought, among other journals. She has a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT, where she teaches and works at the intersection of print and digital media.