To Build and Sustain: Publishing Roundtable

Tiana Reid’s writing has been published in Aperture, Bookforum, Frieze, Momus, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is Assistant Professor of English at York University in Toronto, where she teaches black literatures. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She also co-edits the magazine Pinko. Her first book of poetry, Nightnursing, is forthcoming from Goose Lane Editions in September.

Sky Goodden is the founding publisher of Momus, an online art publication, podcast, and mentorship platform dedicated to art writing and criticism, founded in 2014. Her writing has appeared in numerous catalogues, art books, and publications, including Frieze, Art in America, Modern Painters, C Magazine, and Art21. She is the recipient of the J.E.H. MacDonald Award from the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto and the John Hobday Prize in Arts Management from the Canada Council for the Arts. Goodden has participated in residencies in Ireland, Argentina, Mexico, and across Canada. From 2021–24, she was an Affiliate Professor at Concordia University. She is based in Montreal.

Dr. Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago (2022) and co-editor of the volume Queer Nightlife (2021). Her academic essays on black queer life have been published in GLQ, Women & Performance, and QED. Her forthcoming manual, Writing About Black Art, is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Kemi founded and directs The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary black art.

Molly Kleiman is one of the founding editors and the current director of Triple Canopy, a multimedia magazine that collaborates with contributors on artworks, essays, fictions, conversations, performances, and books (among other media) from conception to realization, navigating the digital and physical realms where ideas and audiences take shape. She cofounded Common Practice New York and the Coalition of Small Arts New York, advocacy groups for small-scale arts organizations, and has taught courses at NYU and RISD.

Lauren Wetmore is a Canadian writer, editor, and curator based in Brussels. She has directed Momus Programs since 2020, and is co-host/producer of Momus: The Podcast since 2017. Wetmore is on the Board of Directors of rekto:verso magazine and co-editor of The Employee, with Joshua Schwebel (Art Metropole, 2025). She has written for catalogues from Mousse Publishing and Sternberg Press; and has published in frieze, MadaMasr, Spike Arts Quarterly, and C Magazine, among others. Wetmore has held positions at MUDAM Luxembourg, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Frieze Projects London, Mophradat, Barbican Art Gallery, and The Banff Centre; and she has curated independent projects for the Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Hangar Barcelona.