The Artist of WBC
Amy
Amy Bobeda is an artist living outside of Boulder Colorado, pursuing her MFA at Naropa University. Outside of WBC, she hosts the Ekphrasis Salon, and spends her time reading books on Jungian psychology, painting, dancing, collaging, hounding her cat, and dreaming. He work ranges from poetry to mixed forms including sound, textiles, and theatre. Stephanie once told her, “if you were a color, you would be blue.” Her most recent publications were Humble Pie 17 and We’ll Never Have Paris 17—she has not been 17 in a while, but remembers it was trying.
Amy’s greatest pursuit is cultivating the divine feminine, and encouraging others to revive and embody the feminine spirit. To read about the conception and birth of WBC, read her post on Medium.
Emily
Emily Trenholm is a writer and teacher from Minneapolis, MN. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Naropa University. She is passionate about contemplative education for both children and adults, with a background in Waldorf education. She is interested in intersections between somatic practices, community-building, traditional crafts, and writing. She is especially inspired by the Divine Feminine as muse, source, and process in the realms of creativity.
Chris
C. M. Chady received her MFA Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she was the Anne Waldman Fellow of the graduating class of 2020. She received her BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Tiny Spoon, Contributing Editor of Bombay Gin, and previously worked as Managing Editor for River Styx. Her work spans multiple genres including poetry, fiction, and hybrid and often revolves around ideas of memory, nature, permanence/impermanence, and condensing/collapsing/confounding time and space. She has been published nationally and internationally. More can be found at her website: cmchady.com.
Chloe
Chloe Tsolakoglou is a Greek-American writer who grew up in Athens, Greece. She graduated from Naropa University's MFA program where she served as the Anselm Hollo Fellow. Chloe has worked for a variety of publications, such as Catamaran Literary Magazine, and is presently an editor for Bombay Gin.
Her writing explores the transactional natures of love and violence under late capitalism and how those in turn affect the body. Through the divine feminine, Chloe channels internal wisdom, pain, and creativity––she charts the ways in which her existence moves within and out of this world.
Stephanie
Stephanie Michele is an MFA candidate at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is a multi-genre writer, editor, and performance artist. Her work has been published most recently in 'What Are Birds? Journal' and 'The South Broadway Ghost Society'. She is the Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of the literary magazine, 'Tiny Spoon,' and is currently writing her first manuscript and performance score. 🔙🔛🔝🔜
Ada
Ada McCartney is an artist, sensitive human, bleeding woman in pursuit of eco-feminine divinity. She was raised on Wind in the Willows and Beatrix Potter by artisans in the wild wood of Michigan. Ada creates and teaches high school in Arizona while studying for an MFA at Naropa University. Her practice take root in yoga (uniting mind and body) while the media Ada works in range from poetry to performance art, from bricolage to correspondence to theatre. Recent projects include co-creating the two-woman show “Survival Skills” produced by Laughing Pig Theatre, a TEDx performance and gestating a manuscript. Ada’s work has appeared in places such as The Smoking Poet, North Central Review, The Cauldron, Instagram, Art Intersection Gallery, Phoenix Dance Observer, The Rotunda of West Philadelphia, and alleys from Kalamazoo to Tokyo.