Mary Proenza was raised up and down the coast of California and completed her BA in literature at UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. She earned her MFA in painting at New York Studio School and her MFA in creative writing at The New School. She has received residency grants from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Jentel Foundation, Springboard for the Arts, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and New York Mills Cultural Center. Her artistic disciplines include painting, drawing, printmaking, and writing. Her written art reviews have been published in Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail, and her visual art appears on the covers of books from John Daniel & Co. and CDs from CMH and Arhoolie. One of her current projects is a graphic memoir combining paintings, drawings, prints, and writing; a chapter of this has been published in Rosebud magazine. Mary Proenza joined the faculty of Marymount University, Arlington, VA, in August 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. Previously, she taught in the City University of New York system, at Marymount Manhattan College, at New York Academy of Art, and at UCSB. To see examples of Mary Proenza’s artwork, please visit www.maryproenza.com