Yellow Studio Residents
Winter/Spring 2025 Residents
Eileen Moskowitz-Palma, a former elementary school teacher, is an alumna of Sarah Lawrence College’s The Writing Institute, where she subsequently taught novel writing for seven years. Eileen has combined her love of teaching and writing to bring virtual and in-person writing programs to kids through partnerships with public libraries and the Girl Scouts. School Library Journal called Camp Clique, the first book in Eileen’s middle grade series, “a powerful middle grade novel about the difficulty of both forgiveness and trust, as well as the nature of true friendship.” The sequel, School Squad, drives home the point that authentic friendship is more important than fitting in. Eileen is currently enrolled in Emerson College’s MFA in Popular Fiction and Publishing program, where she was awarded the 2024 Popular Fiction Page Turner Prize.
Eileen Moskowitz-Palma
Author-in-Residence
Margaret Inga Urías is a Polish-born, interdisciplinary artist working across drawing, photography, and glass engraving to explore the origins, endings, and interconnectedness of all things. Interested in the phenomena that brought space, time, matter and beings into existence, she creates cartographies of deep time, evolutionary time-scales, and trace narratives that follow the small and invisible over vast stretches of time.
Margaret is a recipient of the Interlude Artist Grant (2024), Chenven Foundation Grant (2014), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2013), and the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Drawing/Printmaking/Book Arts (2011). She was a resident at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency in Ithaca, NY (2015) and the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of Art (2014). Her work is held in private collections in the U.S., and has been exhibited in galleries and venues throughout New York, including multiple solo and group exhibitions, and through large scale public art commissions. Her most recent work was on view in a solo exhibition at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery in 2024 She was recently a working Studio Artist at the Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY. Margaret studied at Barnard College, Columbia University (BA, 2001), and Pratt Institute (MS 2004).
Margaret Inga Urías
Artist-in-Residence
Aimee Pokwatka is the author of the novels Self-Portrait with Nothing and The Parliament. Born and raised in West Virginia, she studied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and received her MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. Her short fiction has been published in Fairy Tale Review, Outlook Springs, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. She lives in Cross River with her family.
