Monica Marioni

Monica Marioni was born near Treviso in 1972, but moved to the area of Vicenza when she was still very young, and here she still lives several months a year. She instinctively approached art during her studies, enrolling at the Vicenza Institute of Art; nevertheless, she obtained a degree in statistical sciences because of her passion for mathematics, a science in which she has found ample space for creativity. She spent several years in a large industrial group, thereby developing strong ties with certain materials and the types of manipulation functional to them.

In 2005 she began to devote herself to a full-time art career and started to translate her matherical attitude in the dense material nature of her first abstract works, created on the most disparate supports, with a wealth of strong juxtapositions between metals, plastics, earth and resins, which she commanded through an intense manual action of selection and transformation.  Her work has been shown in Venice, Washington DC, Miami, Lima, Rome, and Capri, and she was the recipient of the First Prize of the Fiorino d’Oro for Painting in Florence, Italy.

Her project IO SONO is about the “inner side” of life, where neuroses and illnesses of the soul, usually elusive, take exact form in HD digital images. Conversely, in REBUS she represents the “outer side” drawing and painting, like in a comic strip, the story of a woman’ life, meetings and episodes ironically filtered and distorted by the memory of the experience.

Rae Cline

Rae Cline is the author of the short story collection The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, NY). Her debut novel is forthcoming from 7.13 Books in spring 2026. Her stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in print and online at The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, McSweeney’s, DIAGRAM, North American Review, Gargoyle and more. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have won prizes, scholarships and fellowships from Johns Hopkins, American University, Aspen Writers Foundation and North American Review. She earned an M.A. in Writing at Hopkins and received her M.F.A. in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction from American University, where she was the recipient of the Starr and Sartwell scholarships. She has lectured on campuses and other venues including Hopkins, American University, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and others. Rae splits time between NYC and the Gulf of Mexico with her husband Rand and Havanese puppy Sophi. She is the founding editor of Eckleburg and is represented by Jennifer Carlson with Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency. Read more at raecline.com.