10 X 10 Exhibit Artist Biographies
“10 x 10: A creative exchange between visual artists and writers”
Artist Teams - Shannon Eakins, Erica Anzalone

Shannon Eakins is pursuing a MFA from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Previously in Tacoma, she worked as an educator, glassblower, and dog trainer. Her recent projects address mammalian behavioral models, and our shared, societal distance to nature.

http://shannoneakins.blogspot.com/  

Artwork



Shannon Eakins, Megafauna Jacket, denim and mixed-media  2011   

Erica Anzalone I am currently a Schaeffer fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I hold an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. I come to UNLV from Drake University, where I taught literature and creative writing as a visiting professor from 2006 until 2009. My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Sentence, Cream City Review, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere.  My manuscript “Samsara” is the recipient of the Noemi Press 2011 First Book Award.  It will be published in the fall of 2012.

Read Megafauna (PDF)

Watch Erica Anzalone of Youtube here: http://tinyurl.com/3n2ryhe