Media artist, writer, and spiritual director, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. They are author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory & Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing Press, 2020, and winner of the Nautilus Book Award’s Gold Medal for Creativity & Innovation); and, creator of Cinema Divina—short films made through and for contemplative practice. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone, and Abbey of the Arts. Freeman is recipient of The Evergreen State College Faculty Foundation Grant, Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects, and multiple Washington State Artist Trust Media Arts Fellowships. Freeman’s films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide, and most recently at London’s MicroActs, Albuquerque’s Experiments in Cinema, Madison’s Midwest Video Poetry Festival, L.A.’s Film & Video Poetry Symposium, Seattle’s Cadence Video Poetry Festival at Northwest Film Forum and at Frye Art Museum, Copenhagen’s Nature & Culture Film Festival, Berlin’s Courage Film Festival, and at the International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. marilynfreeman.com