Lyall Harris is a multi-media artist, writer and educator. Her work has been exhibited in more than one hundred solo and group exhibitions across the US and in Europe and her painting has been further acknowledged with over twenty awards, including The George Hitchcock Prize for painting from the National Academy Museum. Harris’ book art is held in over fifty Special Collection libraries, such as those at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Yale, UCLA and Stanford. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous literary journals, among these, The New Guard, The Minnesota Review and Prose Online. Barrier Island, a book-length poem, is forthcoming from The Black Spring Press Group (London). Her film An Undoing premiered at the Women’s International Film Festival in July 2024. She has taught in the field of book art at a variety of institutions, including the University of Virginia and currently at James Madison University. Lyall holds a BA in Art History from Northwestern University (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Book Art and Creative Writing (Poetry). www.lyallharris.com

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