Carissa Stolting is the founder of Left Bank Artists, an artist management company supporting musicians with global reach and a humanitarian message. She has spoken on panels at South by Southwest, IndieGrrl, and the Big Ears Festival about her work with deeply creative, unconventional artists. Carissa is a contributing poet to the podcast Versify, a publication of PRX, the Porch Writers’ Collective, and Nashville Public Radio. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.