Contributors

Dana Brotman is a painter whose work is shown regularly at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC. Her most recent solo show, Transitional Spaces, was a series of paintings that explored liminal spaces. The show, scheduled to open on March 13, 2020, was already hung when the gallery space was shut down due to COVID restrictions (the show was moved online). Other shows include her 2017 solo show beg borrow + steal: works on cardboard, the 2016 group show Figure 8+1, the 2014 group show Form Transformed: Five Sculptors. In addition to her work as a painter and photographer, she practices clinical psychology in Falls Church, VA.

Luca Caldironi, MD, is a clinical psychiatrist and a member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis (SPI), the American Psychoanalytic Association (ApsaA), and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is a professor at the Martha Harris School of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Bologna, Italy, and he has been a lecturer at the Padova University, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA). His publications and presentations emphasize Bionian thought, especially around the concept of creativity, which he also incorporates as director of the Venetian art exhibition space Castello925. His “K-Now-L-Edge” project is devoted to the study of creativity and its development between art and psychoanalysis and in clinical work. He has a private practice in both Modena and Venice and holds individual and groups consultation in New York.

Paula Coomer grew up in the industrial Ohio River town of New Albany, Indiana. The daughter of more than two hundred years of Kentucky Appalachian farmers, she moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1978. She has been a migrant farm laborer, a waitress, a bean sorter in a cannery, a cosmetics saleswoman, a federal officer, a nurse, and a university writing instructor. Her essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in Gargoyle, Ascent, and The Raven Chronicles, among others. Books inc