The African Desperate

About Martine SymsRocket Caleshu

Writer and Director Martine Syms has earned wide recognition for a practice that combines conceptual grit humor and social commentary. She has shown extensively including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Liverpool. She has also done commissioned work for brands such as Prada Nike Celine Kanye West and NTS Radio among others. She is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award a United States Artists fellowship the Tiffany Foundation award and the Future Fields Art Prize.Writer Rocket Caleshu is based in Los Angeles. He holds a BA in Africana Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing/Critical Studies from the California Institute of the Arts where he was the inaugural Truman Capote Literary Fellow. He received the 2016 Black Warrior Review Prize in Nonfiction. His work has been published in Poetry Magazine New Delta Review Dilettante Journal and others. He is working on a book of essays titled Whatever and a book about love co-written with a clown.