Kara Laurene Pernicano

Kara Laurene Pernicano (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and poet-critic. Kara routinely works in hybrid image-text forms like collage, erasure, comics, and poetic monologue. Through her art practice, she seeks to awaken an interpersonal approach to trauma, grief, talk therapy, and mental wellness. Kara is pursuing her PhD in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook. She has a MFA from Queens College and a MA from the University of Cincinnati. Her creative work has been included in various literary magazines and gallery exhibitions, including Snapdragon, Waccamaw, The Humanities in Transition, Full Stop, the winnow magazine, ang(st), Passengers Journal, Newtown Literary, 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. When not writing or drawing, Kara serves as a Voice Actor for Passengers Journal.