Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in DTLA. She is the editor and co-founder of 13ThingsLA—a weekly Substack of curated exhibition reviews and art event recommendations in Los Angeles. Her writing appears in LA Times, Alta Journal, Artbound/PBS SoCal, Music Connection, Palm Springs Life, Flaunt, WhiteHot, and other culture publications; and she was the longtime Arts Editor at the L.A. Weekly. She is the recipient of the Rabkin Art Writers Prize and the LA Press Club Critic of the Year award.
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ZEN PSYCHOSIS is my debut NOVEL, out now in hardcover. It is a work of oneiric fiction, a novel culled from dreams, a surrealist memoir based on dream journals. Written by Shana Nys Dambrot. Pinhole photography by Osceola Refetoff.
Released January 2020 by Griffith Moon Publishing.
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