Art Block is an artist collective! We are a launch site for showing off our own work and posting updates on what we’re working on. It’s our own little way of encouraging each other to make art as artists we like to feature different artists of all kinds and dive in to the sorts of things they’re making. We started off with prospects of being a literary magazine, but that’s hard and I have two other jobs so we’ve decided to instead shift gears and focus on finding a way of reaching out and getting the most our of this yearly wordpress subscription.

Who We Are

Carolyn Combs is the Co-Editor in Chief and a founding member of the Art Block. She has a degree in Creative Writing from ASU, and is passionate about the arts. She has earned several accolades for writing while at ASU, including the Swarthout Summer Artistic Development grant and 3rd place prize for the 63rd Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Awards, and working as an Interview Editor for the literary magazine Superstition Review. She is also published in Volume 11 of the Tempe Public Library’s ‘Tempe Writes’ anthology. For writing inquiries, she can be reached at combswriting22@gmail.com.

Eliza Kent is Co-Editor in Chief and Fiction Editor for Art Block, and an author with a degree in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. Her debut novel “Devil & A Half” was published by GenZ Publishing. Her work in surrealism and horror have been recognized by the Swarthout Creative Development Fellowship and she received 3rd place in the 2024 Swarthout awards. She has interned as Fiction Editor for the Superstition Review, worked as an event coordinator for the ASU sci-fi fantasy Worldbuilding Initiative, and managed the newsletter for the Academy of Lactation Programs. Inquiries can be referred to elizarkent@icloud.com