Mica England is a queer artist and writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Mica uses both “she/her” and “they/them” pronouns.

Mica graduated from Academy of Art University in May 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and is now pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Mica’s artistic practice is a mixture of photography, collage, poetry, and book arts, while their written practice includes poetry, creative nonfiction, and cross-genre works. Their visual work has been featured in AAU’s 2017 Spring Show in both Fine Art Book Arts and Photography, twice at the Gallery of Broken Hearts in San Francisco, 2019’s Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, with Femme Fotale at Northlight Gallery, and at the Midwest Center for Photography. Mica has also shown at the AOP Awards 2019 and Object Space Gallery with temporary collective. Mica’s written works have been published with Persephone’s Daughters and Over/Exposed Lit.

Upon graduating from AAU, Mica worked at stARTup Art Fair as their Digital Content Curator and General Admin, publishing articles, interviews, and fair previews thru stARTup’s blog. They also juried three of their fairs. Mica is a founding member of temporary collective, a temporary photography collective, with Maddie Dignadice and Maddie Shelton. They are also one half of Robin and Ripley, an artist duo of child abuse survivors exploring trust and trauma together.

Mica was an artist in residence at In-Cahoots Residency in November 2019 and March 2021. They made the Lucie Foundation’s Emerging Scholarship shortlist in 2017 and 2018. Mica also received honorable mentions at the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers in the Women Seen by Women and Open Theme categories, and was an Open Series finalist at the AOP Awards with temporary collective.

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