Holly
Tavel is a writer and artist whose fiction has appeared in, or is
forthcoming from, Torpedo, Elimae, McSweeney's, and Diagram,
which awarded her its Innovative Fiction Award in 2007. She holds
an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. For several years,
as a member of Glowlab, a Brooklyn-based artist's collective, she
collaborated on projects involving public-space performance, social
sculpture, and experimental walks, was editor of Glowlab's Neuroscape
Journal, and helped curate the Psy.Geo.Conflux, an annual New York-based
event bringing together artists, lecturers, and the public for several
days of projects exploring urban space and the city.
Her visual/conceptual
art has featured in group shows at the Participant Gallery in New
York, and at Art Interactive in Cambridge, MA. In 2005 she developed
a Psychogeography course at Brown, which she is teaching for the
third time this summer. In addition to working on a novel, she is
in the process of collaborating on a book focused around writers'
responses to found photographs. She lives in Brooklyn, and teaches
in the English Department at CUNY-Borough of Manhattan Community
College. If we're lucky she will play us some ukulele.
