Fern Feller

Fern's art studies at Queens College in New York laid the foundation for her career as a make-up artist. SInce then, she has brought her skills to television, opera, film and print, most notably, Saturday Night Live, The History Channel, A&E, Entertainment Tonight/The Insider and New York City Opera. She received a Daytime Emmy Nomination for Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego in its 1996-97 season. Also a writer, Fern has created more than 160 short-form biographies broadcast on 200+ American and Canadian radio stations. She was a staff writer for "Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego", a history-driven children's show and "The Great American History Quiz", a History Channel production, and A&E's Biography series. She served as a freelance writer, interviewer and consultant for the author Hubert Selby, Jr.'s web site. Fern has appeared as a featured poet on WBAI radio in New York City. Her work has been published in The Talking Stick; Volume 9' 2000 and the November 2003 issue of Portrait, a literary/arts journal. She is a recipient of a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Millay Colony residency and a Minnesota Lake Regional Arts Council grant. During her artist-in-education residencies, she designed an innovative curriculum for creative writing at the elementary school level. She was also creator and keynote speaker at a Humanities forum for creativity in Albany, New York's Sage College.