Soap Bubble Set
Our professional section, Soap Bubble Set, showcases one visual artist and one writer. Named after an assemblage by modernist sculptor and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Set is poetically and visually associative, evoking imaginative play and the ever-changing nature of the artistic and literary world.
Saúl Hernández
Saúl Hernández is a queer writer who was raised by former undocumented parents. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. Saúl is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. His debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is a 2025 Lambda Literary …
Ron Young
Ronald (Ron) Young, an artist and educator based in St. Louis, Missouri, channels stark realities of social, political, and cultural decay into his studio practice. His mixed-media sculptures are born from the remnants of a crumbling urban environment—weathered doors, rusted tools, decaying wood molding, and abandoned bricks, among other discarded objects. These materials, once symbols …