John J. O’Connor was born in Westfield, MA and attended Pratt Institute. He received a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship and has participated in residencies such as MacDowell and Skowhegan. He will be artist-in-residence at the Cold Spring Harbor Science Laboratory this year. O’Connor’s work is in public collections such as MoMA, the Whitney, the Hood Museum, and the Weatherspoon. He co-chairs Visual Arts at Sarah Lawrence College and is a member of the experimental art and technology collective NonCoreProjector.

Rick Moody is the author of six novels, three collections of stories, and three works of non-fiction, including, most recently, a memoir, The Long Accomplishment. He writes frequently about music, especially at The Home Key, and teaches at Tufts University.