Ellen Boyette received her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Alberta Kelley Fellow and Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her first book of poems, BEDIEVAL, was a finalist for the Slope Editions 2019 Book Prize judged by Solmaz Sharif as well as the CSU 2021 Lighthouse Series Book Prize judged by Shane McCrae. Her work can be found at jubilat, Prelude, poets.org, the Columbia Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere.
Archer Boyette is a filmmaker and installation artist from Asheville, North Carolina. Her handmade, 16mm films playfully engage with the materiality of celluloid to examine human and non-human relationships. Most recently, Archer has been working with botanicals from the Blue Ridge Mountains to create camera-less animations and phytograms. Archer received an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University, where she currently works as an instructor of Cinematic Arts.