Cynthia Carr
C. Carr was a columnist and arts writer for the Village Voice from 1984 until 2003, specializing in experimental and cutting-edge art–especially performance. She has also written for the New York Times, ArtForum, LA Weekly, and other publications, and is the author of Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town and Hidden History of White America and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and lives in New York City.