Nicole Saldarriaga is a Colombian-American writer based in New Jersey. Her fiction has appeared in Epiphany, The Hunger, and The Sarah Lawrence Review. She has an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Felipe P. De Alba fellow and taught in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. While at Catwalk, Nicole will complete her first novel, which follows a young woman haunted by her abuela’s ghost. To heal her family’s generational curse, she must finally bridge the gap between her assimilated American life and the mystical secrets her mother and aunts have spent decades trying to bury.

Affiliation: Columbia

Anna Jastrzembski is a New York City and Santa Fe-based playwright, lyricist, and transmedia artist. She graduated with her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University in 2019. Her work has been seen at The Cherry Lane Theatre, Signature Theatre, The New Ohio, and Joe’s Pub in New York City. Anna is also a member of the SOUR MILK experimental performance collective. They make interactive experiential games that explore how we, as people, find our place and power within complex systems. At Catwalk, Anna will be working on a new play inspired by the writings of W.G. Sebald -- a hybrid work that is part travelogue, part history, and part meditation on memory, loss, and decay.

Website: https://www.annajastrzembski.com/

https://www.sourmilk.xyz/

Affiliation: Columbia

J. Spence Holman is a designer, artist, and musician based in his native Baltimore. A graduate of Vassar College and Maryland Institute College of Art, his drawings use plants and a deeply personal iconography to explore physical and internal space. Flowers function as memories, markers of transformation, and maps toward healing, informed by—but not limited to—years of personal trauma. During his residency at Catwalk Institute, Holman will continue a series of large-scale drawings exploring resilience, recovery, and renewal through the metaphor of the river as both self and survival model. The resulting works will contribute to an upcoming exhibition tentatively titled The Resilience of Water / The Resilience of Memory.

Website: https://www.jspenceholman.com/

Affiliation: Vassar