Jerel Dye is a cartoonist, illustrator, and artist living and working in the Boston area. He has been creating art and comics since 2005 and has produced several self-published mini comics and has created comics stories for anthologies like Inbound, Minimum Paige, Hellbound, and the award winning Little Nemo/Winsor McCay tribute Dream Another Dream. In 2012, he received the MICE comics grant for his mini-comic From the Clouds.
His first graphic novel Pigs Might Fly was released in 2017, by First Second books. Much of his art stems from a deep interest in science and technology though frequently contains a healthy dose of wonder. Jerel Dye received his BFA from Umass Dartmouth in Painting, and his MFA at MassArt in the Studio for Interrelated media. Jerel is also a freelance designer and teaches courses in drawing, cartooning and comics in Massachusetts.
Kristen Paulson-Nguyen edits the Writing Life column for Hippocampus Magazine. Her work is forthcoming in the Publish Her anthology Better Together: A Collection of Essays on Women Gathering and The Keepthings. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, where she was a columnist; New York Times; Creative Nonfiction; and Flyway — Journal of Writing & Environment. Solstice published “Liza in 17 Fragments,” an essay, in its Winter 2022 print issue. Kristen has spoken at the Boston Book Festival, HippoCamp, Gotham Writers Workshop and More to the Story. Through her Title Doctor service, she has titled more than a dozen books, and a contest-winning essay. Kristen is a writing instructor at GrubStreet and a graduate student at Lesley University. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her husband and daughter. Find her at www.persistencepersonified.com.
