Kristine Snodgrass : part one

Kristine Snodgrass is an artist, poet, professor, curator, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Florida. She is the author most recently of Rather, from Contagion Press (2020) and the chapbook, These Burning Fields (Hysterical Books 2019) Kristine’s asemic and vispo work has been published in Utsanga (Italy), Slow Forward, Brave New Word, and Asemic Front 2 (AF2). Her work was just featured in the Asemic Women Writers Summer Exhibition Online. She is passionate about collaboration and her collaborations with De Villo Sloan have been collected in the book, WHISTLE (Asemic Front Series, 2020).

What are you working on?

I am working! Some of it is editorial, some vispo and asemic, including collaborative projects. Andrew Topel and I have been collaborating for a few months. It has been a nice challenge to work with his bold letters—he makes me plan which is odd because most of my work is very intuitive and organic. I am also collaborating with the asemic artist, Karla Van Vliet. Her ink pieces are so exquisite that it takes real care to work with them. I am often spiritually drawn to her work which does make it very intuitive and feminine in a lot of ways. Collaborating is so exciting because working with another artist is full of variables. That is why it is my love and I am writing about it now. I am also, hopefully trying to get some collaborative poetry I have done with Maureen Seaton out and about.  Solo-wise, I am still working in vispo and asemic—doing a couple of projects. I am also editing a book of asemic and vispo work by women artists that will be published by Hysterical Books in 2021. More on that soon! So far, that project has really blown me away. There are some real heavy-hitters alongside fresh and emerging voices.