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YabYum Seven: Piper Daniels

My name is Piper J. Daniels, and I’m thrilled to say I’m a writer. My debut essay collection, Ladies Lazarus, received the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and was named one of Entropy’s favorite nonfiction books of 2018. I am in the process of completing my second book, El Mirage, which focuses on love, gender, illusion, and the Sonoran Desert. I worked for many years as a ghostwriter but burned out on narcissism and moved to full-time manuscript consultation, where I help working and aspiring writers see and improve upon the beauty of their work…

YabYum Seven: Tara Catalano

February 3, 2019 YabYum Featured Articles YabYum Seven

My name is Tara Catalano and I am a local Phoenix abstract expressionist painter…

YabYum Seven: Casey Wakefield

January 27, 2019 YabYum Featured Articles Nicole Royse YabYum Seven

My name is Casey Wakefield and I am an abstract artist. I like to create compositions of color, some predictable and others unpredictable, with layers of ink, collage, acrylic paint, and finishing with oil paint onto canvas. Depending on the memory, thought or experience I am creating, I collage paper with patterns, quotes, music sheets, or poems…

YabYum Seven: James Anthony Peters

November 18, 2018 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Nicole Royse YabYum Seven

James Anthony Peters answers the YabYum Seven!

YabYum Seven: Tommy Cannon

November 11, 2018 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles YabYum Seven

Who are you and what do you do?

I am Tommy Cannon and I’m a cartoonist. I also do more live comedy shows than decent humans would allow themselves to do. I created the cartoon characters Fred the Mustard Packet and Dr. Zombie. I’m also on the art crew for Philip “The Room’s Denny” Haldiman’s autobiographical comic My Big Break…