Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a poet, dancer, filmmaker, and recent US-UK Fulbright Finalist and alumna of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She is the First Place recipient of the Rubin Prize for Poetry (2020) from NYU and the author of heart-shaped box, a poetry chapbook from Ghost City Press (2022). Her dance films have received official selection from festivals including World Stage Design 2022 (Canada), 92NY’s Future Dance Festival (New York), kNOwBOX Dance Film Festival (Texas, South Korea & Mexico), Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (Colorado), and SzólóDuó International Dance Festival (Hungary).