Founder & Editor-In-Chief

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing. michaelworkmanstudio.com

Poetry Editor

Bridge welcomes new Music section Editor Spencer Hutchinson (@spencer.hutchinson.714). Spencer Hutchinson is a 2009 BFA Graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2020 MFA graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he majored in New Media Art Studies and studied Art and Art History as a Continuing Studies Student through The Graham School at The University of Chicago. Hutchinson specializes in painting, drawing, poetry and sound based/new media works as well as critical writing on Art. Between earning his degrees, he has had his poetry published in the Crimson Umbrella Review at Indiana University, Bloomington and has acted as Chicago editor for the rebooted New Art Examiner.net beginning in 2018 writing reviews for several of Chicago’s top galleries including Rhona Hoffman, Kavi Gupta and Roots & Culture. Hutchinson has most recently had his drawings, sound work and poetry published in FENCE magazine based out of New York City after their first collaborative Residency with The Experimental Sound Studio based in Chicago.

Spencer Hutchinson lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Visual Art Editor

Writer, artist, curator, facilitator, and journalist. Xiao wears many hats, but in the end, they all trickle down to one thing: humanitarianism.

Xiao’s artistic journey began when she came to the US to pursue her lifetime mission as a writer, an archivist, and a storyteller. Growing from her personal identity and experience, Xiao began her investigation of the collective diasporic and women’s identity to demystify the Chinese-American experience while actively deconstructing and reconstructing her cultural practices. It was during that period when Xiao began explore arts writing and independent journalism, as well as using visual art and writing as a tool to make space for essential conversations to happen.

Currently, Xiao is a practicing visual artist and an independent journalist covering what's happening in the Midwest belt, focusing on lifestyle, art, and culture. @xiaochineseart

Dance Editor

Michelle Kranicke is the artistic director of Zephyr, the experimental dance company she founded in 1990, and co-director of SITE/less. She has received a number of awards and commissions for her choreography, her curatorial practice, and Zephyr performance projects including, artist residencies at Djerassi Artist Ranch, Woodside, CA and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, a commission by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, an artist residency at Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, an artistic associate and curatorial resident award from Links Hall, Chicago, and a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award. She was recently named one of 2019’s 50 Players in New City. In 2017 she was named one of Chicago’s Top 5 Choreographers and her 2016 aMID Festival was named Best Dance Festival. She was adjunct faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University from 2007-2018 and has taught at Columbia College’s Center for Community Arts Partnerships. zephyrdance.com

Fiction Editor

Lamb is the author of COWARD (2022), Failure to Thrive (2021) All of Your Most Private Places (2020) and Silk Flowers (2017). She served as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, and teaches creative writing through the University of Chicago, Story Studio, and GrubStreet. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, among other publications. She runs the shadow text reading series Significant Others, a project dedicated to elevating new books and the “behind-the scenes” texts that inspired them. meghanlamb.com

Couture Editor

Mariani’s practice is an ongoing conversation between design and art; acknowledging the slippery distinctions between the two disciplines, her investigations unfold in this unstable territory. Through the craft of making clothes, Kristin deploys aesthetic strategies, skill-based knowledge, and text to probe the historical, material, and labor-oriented underpinnings encapsulated in any effort to clothe a person. For her project Yes/On featured in the Couture section, she addresses intimacy, care, language and boundaries, questioning how the production of gender is figured through fashion, place, and labor. redshiftcouture.com

Architecture Editor

David Sundry has designed and built over 50 buildings, theatrical environments and site specific installations over the past 30 years. He has a reputation for innovative design and well-crafted custom architecture. He founded O Group, Inc. / Triple O Construction, Inc., as an architectural design/build company based in Chicago and has received good neighbor awards for the commercial rehabs of Property Consultants Realty (2200 N. Damen, Chicago) and single family residence (2611 N. Magnolia, Chicago). Mr. Sundry’s designs have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Social, Chicago Reader and Better Homes and Gardens. He is co-director of SITE/less. He collaborates theatrically and architecturally with Zephyr Dance, NON:op Open Opera Works and Bridge.

Philosophy Editor

Professor of Philosophy who teaches Ethics, Critical Thinking, and Honors Colloquium at PVAMU, and is Program Coordinator for General Studies and Philosophy. Faculty member for the SECURE (Systems to Enhance Cybersecurity for Universal Research Environment) Center of Excellence, responsible for work concerning ethics and cybersecurity. Visiting Scholar at the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University during my Fall 2023 sabbatical. @marktschaepe