Carolie Parker is a visual artist and writer with a background in foreign languages and art history. Her paintings and sculpture have been exhibited widely in Los Angeles, most recently at Track 16 and Art Division Gallery. She curates independently for artist-run spaces in Los Angeles, including Body Temp at 515 Bendix and Medium, an exhibition focusing on the relationship between language and visual image at FOCA. She was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in poetry and was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her poetry has come out in Sixth Finch, The Yale Review and Denver Quarterly and her visual work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and Caesura. She holds a BFA in studio art from UCI and an MA in comparative literature from UCLA (Latin American, US and French poetry).