Contributors

Daniela Andronache holds degrees in foreign languages, law, and psychology. She is a professional translator (Romanian, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese) with a large portfolio of psychoanalytic and psychological work. Currently, she is translating the Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of the IPA. Following a twenty-year career in management, she has, since, 2009, been dedicated to the study of psychoanalysis. She is now a psychoanalyst in training, living and working in Bucharest, Romania.

Deborah Dancy is a multimedia abstract artist whose paintings, drawings, digital photography, and small sculptures play with the shifting intersection between abstraction and representation. Her many awards include a Guggenheim Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, the American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Artist and Writers Creative Arts Fellowship, and the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; 21c Museum; the Baltimore Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Birmingham Museum of Art; the Hunter Museum; the Detroit Institute of Art; the Montgomery Museum of Art; the Spencer Museum of Art; the Hunter Museum of Art; Vanderbilt University; Grinnell College; Oberlin College Museum of Art; Davidson Art Center; Wesleyan University; and the United States Embassy, Harare, Zimbabwe. She is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC; Robischon Gallery, Denver; and Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta.

Lia Dostlieva (Лія Достлєва) is an artist, cultural anthropologist, and essayist, born in 1984, in Donetsk, Ukraine. She is the recipient of several scholarships, including the Gaude Polonia Scholarship Programme for a Foreign Cultural Professional and a Visiting Fellowship for work on Ukraine in European Dialogue from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. Her exhibitions include Emplotment, featured in the Ludwig Museum in Bu