Called an “American original” by The Daily Beast, Edie Meidav is the author of KINGDOM OF THE YOUNG (2017), a collection of short fiction with a nonfiction coda, and the novelsLOLA, CALIFORNIA (FSG) and CRAWL SPACE (FSG).
I was an unhappy biology teacher. At night I would come home and do nature and sci-fi drawings. I put up a pegboard A-frame at an art fair, and sold all of my drawings. I realized I was better artist than a teacher.
Photo credit: Josh Steinbauer Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight folks who are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing. Each featured artist picks a handful of questions to answer. 19- Who has been your greatest mentor, living or dead, real or imaginary? I don’t think I could pick just one, and all of my arty heroes…
When I first met Arleen, I was little known outside of what I had exposed of myself within the downtown art scene of Lower Manhattan. I was a Black queer kid stalking Buster Cleveland and living with Tim Greathouse, my roommate. As I grew into some renown and celebrity in the 80s, as co-director of…