Travels and Findings
Brittany Ackerman
These photos were all taken on solo trips over the last few years. Some were on a recent trip to my husband’s family’s beach house in Ventura; some were taken during my book tour for my memoir The Perpetual Motion Machine in 2019; some on local outings to museums, or to grab coffee, in transit from one reading to another, one city to another, one state of mind to another. It brings me joy to capture the moments and to look back and reflect on those times when the film is developed and viewed at a later date. All film photos were shot on an Olympus XA, gifted to me by my husband.
Brittany Ackerman is a writer from Riverdale, New York. She earned her BA in English from Indiana University and graduated from Florida Atlantic University’s MFA program in Creative Writing. She teaches Archetypal Psychology and American Literature at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Hollywood, CA. She was the 2017 Nonfiction Award Winner for Red Hen Press, as well as the AWP Intro Journals Project Award Nominee in 2015. Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Review, No Tokens, Hobart, Cosmonauts Ave, Fiction Southeast, and more. Her first collection of essays entitled The Perpetual Motion Machine is out now with Red Hen Press, and her debut novel The Brittanys will be published with Vintage in 2021.