Anna Goodman Herrick

Founding Artistic Director Anna Goodman Herrick (they/them) is an author and interdisciplinary artist. They were a guest speaker at 2026 West Hollywood Pride and a 2025 City of Los Angeles Commissioned Artist. In June 2026, Newsweek featured Anna as a leading voice in LGBTQ+ advocacy and representation.

As a poet and performance artist, Anna has performed texts from their gallery and museum installations at the Emily Dickinson Museum, at Hauser & Wirth presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Los Angeles Press, Artist Uprising, Bloomsday on Broadway, and more.

Anna is the author of A Speaker is a Wilderness (Monkfish, 2024), poetry that includes texts from Anna’s installations. Available everywhere books are sold.

Medical News Today featured Anna’s book of poetry, A Speaker is a Wilderness for its contributions to mental health, and prompts Anna includes in their book, for healing through poetry, have been used by counselors across the U.S.

Anna has created impactful television and branded content for MTV, Oprah Winfrey Network, Sundance Channel, ABC Family, Teen Vogue, and produced and directed Vh1’s first positive representation of a trans person, which audiences expressed shifted their understanding from stigma to acceptance.

Anna’s work has been featured at the Emily Dickinson Museum; Patagonia’s Earth Day; at the El Paso border with One Billion Rising, curated by V (fka Eve Ensler); Radio Bloomsday (with Alec Baldwin and Stephen Colbert); the Alena Museum; at NEARCON in Lisbon, Portugal; and in galleries, museums, and media worldwide.