Karla Wozniak and Rachel Richardson

Rachel Richardson is the author of three books of poetry, Smother (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025), and Hundred-Year Wave (2016) and Copperhead (2011), both selections in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. Her poetry and prose appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, at the Poetry Foundation, on The Slowdown, and elsewhere. 

Rachel received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award and the Theodore Roethke Prize. She also holds an MA in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA in English from Dartmouth College. She has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford, University of San Francisco, and, most recently, as Distinguished Visiting Writer at St. Mary's College of California in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Rachel is the Co-Founder of Left Margin LIT, a literary arts center in Berkeley, California. In 2024 she was named an inaugural Artists-in-Fire Resident through the Confluence Lab, and is now trained as an FFT2 wildland firefighter. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Karla Wozniak received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. Wozniak's paintings exist on the edge of representation and abstraction, creating a visual world that suggests a kind of synesthetic experience. She has shown internationally, with solo shows at such venues as GGLA in Los Angeles, the Schneider Museum in Ashland, Oregon, Et al. in San Francisco, and the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco where she is represented. Wozniak has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and was a SECA Finalist at the San Francisco Museum of Art. She has participated in the Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace program; the Marie Walsh Sharpe Program; and received two MacDowell fellowships. Her work has been featured in a number of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Village Voice, and The Huffington Post, among others. Her work is included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Knoxville Museum of Art permanent collections. Wozniak lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts.