Hastings Hensel is the author of the poetry collections Ballyhoo (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), Winter Inlet, which won the 2014-2015 Unicorn Press First Book Contest, and the chapbook Control Burn, which won the 2011 Iron Horse Literary Review Single-Author Competition.
He is from Columbia, South Carolina, and he graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South before earning his M.F.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
His writing has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Gray's Sporting Journal, The Greensboro Review, New South, storySouth, The Hopkins Review, PLEIADES, Valley Voices, Cave Wall, 32 Poems, and many others. He has been awarded the Tennessee Williams Fellowship at Sewanee, the South Carolina Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, The Hopkins Review fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, and he has been named Grand Strand Artist of the Month. His magazine articles appear frequently in South Carolina Living, Grand Strand, South Carolina Wildlife and other magazines.
He teaches writing at Coastal Carolina University and is the owner of River Reader Kayaking in Murrells Inlet, SC, where he lives with Lee and Huck.
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Maura Kenny has always been a teacher of the visual arts. Her
career began 40 years ago in a rural Connecticut Elementary School
after receiving a BS in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State
University. Graduate school brought her south to the University of North
Carolina Greensboro where she earned an MFA in Painting. She enjoyed
teaching a variety of Painting, Drawing and Art Education Courses at
Coastal Carolina University for over 30 years. Maura lives and maintains
a studio in Pawleys Island, South Carolina with her husband Paul and her
work is exhibited at Island Art Gallery in Pawleys Island, SC.
Her current artwork finds its foothold in traditional painting technique
while simultaneously engaging contemporary thought, process and
meaning. The traditional methods of painting have merged into mixed
media layering and collaged space. These mixed media paintings have
become vehicles that address her interest in the content of modern
social challenges such as loss, aging, and the environment, etc.
Her mixed media/collaged paintings have been greatly inspired by
the polychromatic, pattern, and textures of fabrics and quilts.
Undoubtedly, a direct influence from her grandmother who was a
wonderful seamstress and who delighted her as a child with her
beautiful hand made dresses of saturated colors, swoon inducing
patterns and layers of semi–transparent fabrics.
Maura is currently illustrating several books and has several already
in circulation including "Sandy Island … forever a Collaboration of Essays
and Images", with Linda Ketron as editor, released in 2022. She has
exhibited in over 50 regional, national and international juried
exhibitions as well as one person exhibitions and invitationals
which span the last 25 years. Maura Kenny Fine Art
career began 40 years ago in a rural Connecticut Elementary School
after receiving a BS in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State
University. Graduate school brought her south to the University of North
Carolina Greensboro where she earned an MFA in Painting. She enjoyed
teaching a variety of Painting, Drawing and Art Education Courses at
Coastal Carolina University for over 30 years. Maura lives and maintains
a studio in Pawleys Island, South Carolina with her husband Paul and her
work is exhibited at Island Art Gallery in Pawleys Island, SC.
Her current artwork finds its foothold in traditional painting technique
while simultaneously engaging contemporary thought, process and
meaning. The traditional methods of painting have merged into mixed
media layering and collaged space. These mixed media paintings have
become vehicles that address her interest in the content of modern
social challenges such as loss, aging, and the environment, etc.
Her mixed media/collaged paintings have been greatly inspired by
the polychromatic, pattern, and textures of fabrics and quilts.
Undoubtedly, a direct influence from her grandmother who was a
wonderful seamstress and who delighted her as a child with her
beautiful hand made dresses of saturated colors, swoon inducing
patterns and layers of semi–transparent fabrics.
Maura is currently illustrating several books and has several already
in circulation including "Sandy Island … forever a Collaboration of Essays
and Images", with Linda Ketron as editor, released in 2022. She has
exhibited in over 50 regional, national and international juried
exhibitions as well as one person exhibitions and invitationals
which span the last 25 years. Maura Kenny Fine Art
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