WTP 2018 Second Place Literary Winner

WTP 2018 Second Place Literary Winner

Rachel Michaud Rachel Michaud is a prize-winning poet and essayist. Her essays have been published in The Washington Post and the Hartford Courant, and heard on WAMC-Northeast Public Radio. Recently, her poetry was included in the anthology Birchsong, v. II (Blueline Press, 2018). Rachel made her living as a literacy teacher, and later as a…

WTP Artist: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

WTP Artist: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Photography Inspired by Painting Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Photographer Sandrine Hermand-Grisel grew up in Paris and London before relocating to the United States. She studied international law, then in 1997 decided to dedicate herself full-time to photography. Influenced by her late mother’s sculptures and her husband’s paintings and films, she worked on…

WTP 2018 Second Place Fine Art Winner

WTP 2018 Second Place Fine Art Winner

Laura J. Bennett Umbilicus is a conceptual depiction of my life as both artist and mother. The spherical form is an element I have referenced in my work throughout my career. I sculpt spheres and build ‘sets’ in my studio, sometimes adding collected objects. The canvas backdrops are sourced from scanned antique glass negatives. I…