Briana Gervat received her B.A. in Art History at The University of Mary Washington in 2002. While in attendance at UMW, she was also a two-time All-American lacrosse player. In 2014, she earned an M.A. in Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her interview with Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar that complemented her thesis was published in ARTPULSE magazine. After completing graduate school, she travelled to Rwanda to continue her studies on the Rwandan Genocide and the art of East Africa. She now lives in New York, where she practices photography and writing. Her prose, poetry, and photography have been published in anthologies, magazines, and online publications and her self-published works, two travel memoirs: Mosaic and I Once Was a Pilgrim, can both be found on Amazon.