Calliope
The Worlds of Jack Finche and Kohava Ray
What (Who) is Calliope?
In 375 B.C. the ancient Athenians knew her as the muse of epic poetry. We, however, are a 21st Century husband and wife team engaged in coupling art with science, poetry with history, and creating a world-view that is novel, inspiring, and unexpected.
Calliope Productions focuses on alternate pathways of reality. Given the success of such classics as The Man in the High Castle, Cloud Atlas and Red Moon, there is a well-educated international audience that appreciates informed speculative fiction and art.
In short, we deal with plausible deflections in the evolution of our depressingly familiar day-to-day reality.
At present, we are not represented by any agency but are striving to acquire representation as soon as possible.
CAPSULE BIOGRAPHIES
Jack Finche (Dr. Thomas G. Hedberg)
has been a student, researcher and faculty member at Cornell University (BS cum laude, Neuroscience), Oregon State University (MSc, Radiation Biology), Harvard Medical School/Boston University (PhD, Neurobiology), Yale University (Research Associate, Aerospace Radiation Biology) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neuroscience). Dr. Hedberg is the author of upward of 30 scientific papers and publications and has also published nonfiction science and humor pieces in the Boston Globe, New York Times, Miami Herald, Adbusters and Fauna magazines. He is currently executive director of the UN-affiliated International Medical Crisis Response Alliance, a nonprofit, globally active native-language medical education NGO.
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Kohava Ray (Ms. Chikako H. Hedberg)
is a photopoet and visual artist originally from Osaka Japan. She was educated at Kansai-Gaidai Junior college and completed her BFA at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. In 2002 Kohava was selected for a fellowship at the Poznan Academy of Fine arts in Poland. Her graphic works have been exhibited in Kyoto and Nara Japan, at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, and were approved for exhibition at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield CT. Her photopoems have been published in Urban Nature, Musings Journal of the Arts (Norwalk Community College), Sankei Shimbun Daily News (Japan), Niigata Nippo Daily News (Japan) and N'est-ce Pas? (France).
WELCOME TO OUR WORLD
​If you find yourself intrigued by heretofore unimagined possibilities, both dark worlds and those pulsing with searing unknowable brilliance, take a moment, hold your breath, click on the door, and enter.
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