Mina Hamedi
Mina Hamedi grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and is of Turkish/Iranian descent. She works at the literary agency, Janklow & Nesbit Associates, where she is building her own list, focusing on literary fiction and experimental non-fiction. She is a co-founder of NAUSIKAE and has had work featured in BOMB Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Epiphany Literary Journal, The Adroit Journal, and Joyland. She is writing a collection about her grandfather, the family company he founded 75 years ago, and the nature of legacies.
Naomi Falk
Naomi Falk is a writer, editor, and book designer whose work fixates on art, intimacy, pain, and the ways in which we engage and disconnect our sensory perceptions. She works at The Museum of Modern Art, is an editor at Archways Editions, is a co-founder of NAUSIKAE, and is a founding member of HOLE.NYC. Naomi is currently finishing her first book of experimental essays, tentatively entitled The Surrender of Man, and has had work featured in Black Sun Lit, BOMB Magazine, and Ki Smith Gallery, among others. She is represented by Mina Hamedi of Janklow & Nesbit.
Ryan Bock
Ryan Bock specializes in painting, drawing, puppetry, animation and experimental film methods. Bock’s practice is rooted in a need for narrative structure. Maintaining a fascination for shape, shade, shadow, structure and optical illusion, Bock deconstructs his subject matter into often barely-recognizable delineations and structurally unsound repetitive patterns. By consistently contrasting historical subjects with those of the present, and using the recurring patterns found to generate predictions about our future—a process he refers to as ‘dusty futurism’—Bock propels his audience to reconsider the routine human experience and discloses the illusions implemented to keep them from questioning. Commissions and/or collaborations welcome.