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A meditation on rice and belonging.

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Robert Alan Grand


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Robert Alan Grand is a writer and photographer based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His writings have appeared in Art in America, The Bitter Southerner, and Garden & Gun, among others, and his photographs of the rural South have appeared in numerous exhibitions and regional publications. He is currently the Carolinas Editor-at-Large for Burnaway, a magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South. Grand grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and holds a BFA from Watkins College of Art in Nashville, Tennessee. From 2014-2019, he co-founded and co-directed Kimberly-Klark, an interdisciplinary project space in Queens, New York.

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