Laura Bell’s work has been exhibited in New York City, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts and is a recipient of an Artists Space Grant. She lives, paints, and makes Corpses in Long Island City, New York. 

Ian Ganassi’s poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Fogged Clarity, Sawbuck, Octopus, The Journal, Caesura, Languageandculture.net, and Trickhouse. His poem “Blunt Trauma” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he is currently working on a verse translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, which is being published in parts by New England Review. Ian lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is a writer, teacher, and percussionist.

Selected pieces from the Corpse series were shown at Zone Contemporary Art, NYC, in the exhibition “Disciplined Spontaneity,” a historical survey including works by contemporary artists and such antecedents as John Cage and Joseph Beuys.