Lora Bloom writes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and abstract rants, and is a musician and performance artist. Currently she is the lead vocalist of the experimental rock band Radio Eris and she helps run Eris Temple Arts, an art gallery and music space in West Philadelphia. She has been recently published by 13 Myna Birds, received a prize for her writing by the Beat Museum, was featured at the 25th Anniversary of the Shubin Theatre, and has performed and curated music and poetry widely in Europe and the United States.

Bonnie MacAllister renders moments through a variety of media. Often pieces are multi-genre, fusing painting, photography, slide installations, spoken word, video, and performance. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, poetry slam champion in the United States and France, and Fulbright-Hays awardee to Ethiopia. Her poetry has been published in Esque, 10,000 Poets for Change/Fieralingue, Grasp (Czech Republic), nth position (UK), and Paper Tiger Media (Australia). She has performed her original writing and plays at New York Foundation for the Arts, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Raandesk Gallery in Chelsea, Adrienne Theater in Philadelphia, and Cat Cat Club in Paris. She is currently showing work at the Sandy Spring Museum in MD.

Bonnie MacAllister

Multimedia, Performance, Arts Marketing, French

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