Adam Turl is an artist and writer from southern Illinois — by way of Wisconsin, Chicago, St. Louis, upstate New York and Las Vegas. They are an artist and editor at Locust Review, a quarterly irrealist journal of art and literature, and a member of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective (LALC). They have had solo exhibitions at the Brett Wesley Gallery (Las Vegas), the Cube (Las Vegas), Project 1612 (Peoria, Illinois), and Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois). In 2016 Turl was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France. They received their MFA from Washington University in St. Louis at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, and a BFA from SIUC. Turl is working on the Born Again Labor Museum with their partner Tish Turl, a writer and fellow LALC member. They host the (sometimes) monthly podcast Locust Radio. They are a doctoral candidate at SIUC in media arts.

Tish Turl is a writer and poet from central Illinois living in southern Illinois by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. Growing up they had a pet cow named Bob – named after an auctioneer at the sale barn. Turl beat up homophobes in high school. They literally once owned a pair of rose-colored glasses but lost them. Tish is a former editor at Red Wedge Magazine. Tish is also a writer and editor at Locust Review, a quarterly irrealist journal of art and literature, and a member of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective (LALC). Their published work includes the serialized novella Sound, the short stories, “Space Goths,” “Memez,” and “Sewerbot,” and the serialized poems of the “Toilet Key Anthology.” They are currently working on the evolving Born Again Labor Museum project, and the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer, with their partner and fellow LALC member, Adam Turl. They are an MFA student at SIUC in creative writing and poetry.