Bio:  Aileen Bassis is a visual artist and poet in New York City working in book arts, printmaking, photography and installation. Her use of text in art led her to study the craft of poetry. She’s the author of two chapbooks, “The Other Side of the Mirror” (Unlikely Books)  and “Advice for Travelers and other poems” (Black Sunflowers Press). Her journal publications include B o d y Literature, Spillway, Grey Sparrow Journal, Canary, The Pinch and Prelude. She was awarded poetry residencies  to Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and literary project grants from the NY State Council on the Arts and the Queens Arts Fund.