Candice Thompson has been working in and around live art for nearly two decades. She was a dancer with Milwaukee Ballet before moving into costume design, movement education and direction, editing and arts writing. She attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, graduated from St. Mary’s College LEAP Program, and later received an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University. She has written extensively about dance for publications like Dance magazine and ArtsATL, in addition to being editorial director for DIYdancer, a project-based media company she co-founded, and writing and praxis curator for glo, a social movement platform based in the Deep South.