Artist Bio
Denise Clemen is a writer who makes collages, paper, artist’s books, and boxes. Her essays and fiction have been published in dozens of literary magazines. Her most recent essay "Under the Sun" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Denise has received fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Ragdale Foundation, and was an Auvillar fellow at Moulin à Nef in France in 2009. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Nebraska in 2010. Since she began her practice as a collage artist, she has completed two Kolaj Institute residencies in Sanquhar, Scotland in 2023 and 2024.