Faculty
The ITI faculty offer a wide variety of approaches to the
written and visual arts. All are working contemporary artists who
publish and exhibit their work in national and international
contexts. Our faculty are dedicated to innovative approaches and
traditions that value psychologically, culturally and politically
engaged work.
Emily Abendroth is a poet, teacher and anti-prison
activist living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her creative work
often uses interventionist and documentary poetic strategies as
exploratory tools for the investigation and “making
strange” of otherwise all too familiar socio-political
dynamics, relationships and intimacies. Her pieces are often
published in limited edition, handcrafted chapbooks by small and
micropresses such as Albion Press, Belladonna, Horse Less Press,
Little Red Leaves, and Zumbar. She has been awarded residencies at
the MacDowell Colony,
the Millay Colony and the Headlands Center for the Arts, and was
named a 2013 Pew Fellow in Poetry. Her poetry book ]Exclosures[ is
available from Ahsahta Press. She is an active organizer with
Decarcerate PA (a grassroots campaign working to end mass
incarceration in Pennsylvania) and is co-founder of Address This!
(an education and empowerment project that provides innovative,
social justice correspondence courses to individuals incarcerated
in Pennsylvania).