A PromptPress Image+Word Reading

The Image+Word series showcases writers and artists working at the intersection of visual art and writing. Join us for a reading with some of our recent and upcoming contributers!

Tia Fishler (she/her) received her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives, writes, bartends, teaches, and flourishes in Iowa City. Her work can be read or is forthcoming in Feminine Collective and Bullshit Lit. You can find her on X at @fishler_tia.

Dana King is a photographer, poet, and book artist and is currently an MFA candidate and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Dana is also an avid collaborator.

Evan Fusco, generally speaking, does a lot of different things. Writer, thinker, publisher, teacher, maker, performer, host, and curator. They work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where they graduated at one point in time. They are a union member of AICWU, run General Things Press, and host General Readings. Pieces of theirs have been published, performed, contained, or shown in and/or at: Other Forms, MOCA Cleveland, Apparatus Projects, The Chicago Art Book Fair, Plates Journal, Carrol University, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection. Currently they are structuring the beginning roster of General Things Press, working on a manuscript on "autistic thingliness”, and are working towards producing physically again in the sense of sculpture while structuring new lecture performances in preparation for the manuscript.

Lemmy Ya'akova is an advocate for y2k low culture, an amateur pool player, a popcorn enthusiast and a cat parent to their son, Moose. Their work can be found in HAD (Hobart After Dark), Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine, SAND Journal and more. They’re the author of the poetry collection Overflowing the Tub, Night Gallery Press, 2024. You can keep up with their life on instagram @olive.apologist.