Open Door Reading Series: Kristy Bowen, laaura goldstein, Dominique Dusek & Damon Locks

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A writer and book artist working in both text and image,  Kristy Bowen is the author of a number of chapbook, zine, and artist book projects, as well as several full-length collections of poetry/prose/hybrid work, including the recent SEX & VIOLENCE. Bowen is the founder of dancing girl press & studio. 

laaura goldstein is the author of the full-length poetry collections loaded arc and awesome camera, as well as numerous chapbooks. With Jennifer Karmin, Goldstein co-curates the Red Rover Reading Series in Chicago. She is a lecturer at Loyola University and lives in Chicago

Dominique Dusek’s work has appeared in Jet Fuel Review and Windows Fine Arts Magazine. After earning her Bachelor’s in Creative and Professional Writing at Lewis University, Dusek returned to school to pursue her Master's in Secondary Education. She currently applies her passion for teaching writing as a middle school language arts teacher in Oak Brook. Her chapbook, Self Portrait With Playroom and Diazepam is currently available through dancing girl press.   

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist, and musician; he received his BFA in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His awards include a Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts, a MAKER Grant, a Soros Justice Media Fellowship, and a 3Arts Award. Locks has worked with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) at Stateville Correctional Center as a teaching artist since 2014, and .is artist-in-residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program. In addition, he leads the group Black Monument Ensemble and is a founding member of the The Eternals.

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