Alex Belardo Kostiw gives shape to stories. She is a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a 2023-2024 Hatch Artist-in-Residence, a Teaching Artist at Spudnik Press, and she makes at her self-publishing practice Tenderly.

Alex joins Sevy to talk all things bookmaking and then some, including how her creative development began as a child growing up in a crowded Bronx, her discovery of the intentionally ambiguous "poetry comic" in college, and what good home cooking can teach us about visual art — even though most of that stuff had to be cut due to a hilarious misunderstanding.

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