Kenieha Boren, known as Kenny Rae, is a poet and spoken word artist from Nashville. After a spiritual awakening, she embraced poetry for healing. Kenny Rae has performed for three years and hosted events like “Self Discovery Through Spoken Word” and “Write & Release: Sound Bath and Poetry Reading.” Notable performances include Clit Tips and the Kindling Arts Festival, where she performed Letter to Jacob with tap dancer Brendan Pinkett.
Kenieha Boren
Alder Brandon
Alder Brandon
Alder Brandon is a sophomore at the University School of Nashville. He is passionate about all things art and writing, and frequently spends his free time writing strange short stories. When he is not writing, Alder spends his time painting miniatures, reading, and watching various shows and movies. He has been telling stories his entire life and is extremely excited to compose more of them in association with Oz Arts Art Wire.
Sandra Crouch
Sandra Crouch, MA, is thrilled to be an Artwire Fellow. She is a poet, floral designer, and multi-genre artist living in Nashville. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Anacapa Review, Jet Fuel Review, Nimrod, Rogue Agent, Rust+Moth, SWING, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Sandra speaks fluent Flower, basic Czech, and is at currently at work on her Southern accent and her first poetry collection. You can read more work at https://sandracrouch.com.
Sandra Crouch
Carson Elliot
Carson Elliot
Carson Elliot (they/them) is a poet and educator living in Middle Tennessee after growing up in Northeast Ohio. They are the author of the chapbook Celestial Bodies: A Year of Transgender Love Letters (2023). Their work focuses on the intersections of transness, spirituality, and questions of belonging. Their work can be found in publications such as Ouch! Collective, Third Iris, Fifth Wheel Press, Stirring, and South Broadway Press among others.
Kelly Cass Falzone
Writer and teaching artist Kelly Cass Falzone holds an MFA in Poetry and MSEd in Counselor Education. Her work most recently appears in Stone Canoe, Medmic, Please See Me, and Literary Accents and has received numerous awards including The Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry. Although raised in Rochester, NY, Kelly is celebrating thirty years in Nashville where she’s had a long career working with nonprofits such as Oasis Center, Southern Word, and Art & Soul.
Kelly Cass Falzone
Patricia Mitchell
Patricia Mitchell
Patricia Mitchell grew up in Nashville. A graduate from the University of Alabama, she now works as an archivist. She admires visual and performing artists and is excited to learn from the talented folks at OZ Arts and the Porch.
Marcus Robinson
Marcus Robinson attends Nashville School of the Arts as a Junior of the Literary Arts Conservatory. Marcus is a deep soul who tends to encourage himself to listen, and respond with passion in his heart—than to respond to prove his point. Marcus has been writing poetry for 3 years now, and he—on the side—tends to partner with the organization Southern Word to share his voice. Marcus wishes to expand his creativity.
Marcus Robinson
ArJae "Sensei" Thompson
ArJae "Sensei" Thompson
ArJae "Sensei" Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Within their reclaimed identity of “Sensei”, they have sought to synthesize their passions for sequential art, graphic design, site specific art/mural making, and cartooning to explore esoteric concepts, political thought, and transmedia place-keeping through community engagement and storytelling.
Tsurah (Suh-Rawh) Waire
Tsurah (Suh-Rawh) Waire is a senior at Nashville School of the Arts, and she has a silly “T” in her name simply to trip up every person that first meets her. When she’s not writing about the moon, she is either sewing or glued to her screen doing puzzles. She likes to write prose poems and flash fiction, inspired by her surroundings and random lines written in her Notes app.
Tsurah (Suh-Rawh) Waire
Lizzie Wimberley
Lizzie Wimberley
Lizzie Wimberley is a sophomore at Harpeth Hall and spends most of her time in the theater building; rarely seeing the light of day. When she is not performing, she enjoys mountain biking, environmental activism, singing, and writing: an activity that has allowed her to explore all the other passions she has not been able to fully dig into. Lizzie is also a member of Harpeth Hall’s Green Club and Nashville Theater School’s High School Artists. "She will never be satisfied."
