Rana Young is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. She earned her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where she was an Othmer Fellow and a BFA in Studio Art from Portland State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as published by CNN, Hyperallergic, VICE, Huffington Post, Harper’s Magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, The Wall Street Journal, British Journal of Photography, and The New York Times, among others. Kris Graves Projects (Queens, NY) published her first monograph, The Rug’s Topography, in 2019.