Vincent Trimboli
Vincent Trimboli is a painter, poet, and professor from Elkins, West Virginia. With an idiosyncratic style that subtly deviates from conventional understandings of portraiture and realism, Trimboli's paintings glow with evocative softness, intimate personality, and an internal conflict between notions of innocence and eroticism. Similarly, their poetry revels in the many conflicts and contradictions and joys of being a queer person in Appalachia. Trimboli has published multiple poems, chapbooks, and the 2019 book The Book of Rabbits, a research-poem about the medical hoax of Marty Toft, the woman who birthed rabbits.