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Kara Laurene Pernicano is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and poet-critic. Her multimedia work characterizes auto-fictional stories upon moving to NYC by plane with a tangle of memories. Venturing from a closet-like space, she captures resonances in the porous mind to awaken an interpersonal approach to trauma, grief, healing, and mental health. She revels in the power of art assemblage and musical texture. Through embodied rehearsal, the activation of text and image inspires new signs of movement and patterns of breath. She has an MFA from Queens College CUNY and a MA from the University of Cincinnati. Kara’s writing has been published by Snapdragon, Waccamaw, Rabbit, The Humanities in Transition, Full Stop, the winnow magazine, and ang(st). Her visual art has been on view in the Whitney Staff Art Show and LIC Artists’ Plaxall Gallery. She has performed for New York Theatre Workshop, Poetic Theater Productions, and the Poetry Society of New York. She teaches writing at CUNY. Find out more about her work on her website: http://kara-pernicano.squarespace.com/.