“To wear masks put them off,” writes Ruth Greisman, alter-ego of the late artist and writer Robert Seydel. Though based on and named after Seydel’s real-life aunt, Ruth is largely a fictional construct.
Daniel Owen
Daniel Owen is a Brooklyn-based writer and member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective. He is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books, 2015); the chapbooks Authentic Other Landscape (Diez, 2013) and Up in the Empty Ferries (Third Floor Apartment Press, 2016); and the Mondo Bummer broadside “Catawampus.” His writing has appeared in Where Eagles Dare, Elderly, Lana Turner, A Perimeter, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.
