A Pioneer Valley Reading

​All photos by Peter Raper taken at various HUTs between 2021-2026 by Peter Raper

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Cameron Childs was born and raised in West Philadelphia and began training for a professional dance career at the age of fourteen. Childs has performed in works by Ronald K. Brown, Mark Morris, Robert Battle, Faustin Linyekula, and others whose choreographic legacies continue to shape his understanding of performance and practice. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Dance from The University of the Arts in the summer of 2021 and has recently been involved in the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellowship Program as a performer at Jacob’s Pillow, Black Aesthetics Introductions at Judson Church, and the UNCSA 2026 Choreographic Fellowship. As both a dancer and maker, Childs’ creative work moves between choreography, writing, and research. His choreographic works include Poverty’s Paradise – The Allegory Of (2018), Pathogenic Agent (2021), the latter of which also developed into his first published book of the same name, and Solitude of a Pickled Feather (2025) at Judson Church, NYC.
Childs has served as the Program Coordinator for Bennington’s BFA in Dance Lab and the Low-Residency MFA in Dance program since Fall 2024 and is a visiting faculty member in the BFA in Dance Lab for the 2024-2026 academic year.

​Mark Wunderlich is the author of five books of poems, the most recent of which is MATEY, forthcoming from Graywolf Press. His other books include God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press in 2021, The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Amy Lowell Trust, and he has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and held two fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he now serves as Chair of the Writing Committee and as a Trustee. His poems, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and his poems are widely anthologized. Since 2003, he has taught writing and literature at Bennington College, where he became the Director of the Writing Seminars in 2017. He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University School of the Arts. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

Rebecca Schrader is a cellist and painter based in Easthampton, MA. She currently teaches drawing and painting at UMass Amherst, where she is studying towards an MFA in Studio Art. Prior to graduate school she worked as Registrar at the Northampton Community Music Center after graduating from Amherst College with a degree in English.