Paula Billups
A native of Texas and a New England transplant, Ms. Billups holds an MFA from the Transart Institute in Berlin, a BFA from the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work spans the media of painting, drawing, writing, collage, installation, research, and autotheory. Her art and writing have appeared in exhibitions and periodicals in the U.S. and abroad. She has exhibited in the United States, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom, and has participated in collaborations and projects in Canada, Georgia, and Tunisia. In 2011, she was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Siena Art Institute in Italy. In 2015, she created Dragon Food Press to publish her art books and written projects. To learn more, visit [...] and [...]

Dr. Edward V. George
Edward V. George (PhD, Classics, Wisconsin, 1966), a native of Buffalo, New York, is Professor Emeritus of classical studies and humanities at Texas Tech University, where he taught from 1971-2010. He studied Homeric Archaeology at Wisconsin under Bronze Age scholar Emmett Bennett, and published articles on the epic poet Apollonios Rhodios. He completed bilingual editions (with English translation) of two speeches by the Greek orator Isocrates and several Latin works by the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540).