Introducing 2019 Chapbook Collaborating Artist, Heidi Reszies

Sneak Peek: the art(ist) behind the cover art!

The OS is excited to announce that this year, our chapbook series will feature original work from transdisciplinary artist, poet & maker, Heidi Reszies! For the first time ever, our collaborating artist’s work will grace not only our print series but also our new digital chapbook series, released monthly throughout the year.

Each cover is a piece from Heidi’s series Collected Objects & the Dead Birds I Did Not Carry Home, mixed media collages with encaustic on 8 x 8 wood panel, 2018.

Heidi describes this series as an exploration of “objects/fragments of material culture — how objects occupy space, and my relationship to them or to their absence.”

You can read more about Heidi’s process, and the making of her forthcoming book from the OS, Illusory Borders, here, in “Beginning Again and Again is a Natural Thing,” part of our long-running Field Notes series.

Find our whole collection of print and digital chapbooks for 2019 available for preorder now on our online catalog, and look for the first in our digital series, Rachel Zolf’s “The American Policy Player’s Guide and Dream Book,” forthcoming this week! As always, each release will be accompanied by an interview with the author, included in each volume and available here, on our Medium site.

Heidi Reszies is a poet/transdisciplinary artist living in Richmond, Virginia. Her visual art is included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts CLARA Database of Women Artists. She teaches letterpress printing at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, and is the creator/curator of Artifact Press. Her poetry collection titled Illusory Borders is forthcoming from The Operating System in 2019, and now available for pre-order. Her collection titled Of Water & Other Soft Constructions was selected by Samiya Bashir as the winner of the Anhinga Press 2018 Robert Dana Prize for Poetry (forthcoming in 2019). Find her at heidireszies.com.