TESS
GRUENBERG






Tess Gruenberg (b.1994, NYC) is a writer and creative strategist whose lyrical, philosophical approach to storytelling has appeared in Flaunt, Dazed, Beauty Papers, and OFFAL.

From 2018 to 2021, she served as assistant editor at Good Trouble, where she authored and edited over thirty features, conducting intimate interviews across culture, politics, and the arts. Her writing weaves together personal narrative with broader cultural critique, creating pieces that are both deeply researched and poetically rendered. She has since collaborated with artists including Paul Graves, Simons Finnerty, and Barry Yusufu on exhibition texts.

She lives on Patmos, where she runs éla! farm + kitchen—an experimental hospitality project focused on local agriculture, rare wine, and performance.
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Tess Gruenberg (b.1994, NYC) is a writer and creative strategist whose lyrical, philosophical approach to storytelling has appeared in Flaunt, Dazed, Beauty Papers, and OFFAL.

From 2018 to 2021, she served as assistant editor at Good Trouble, where she authored and edited over thirty features, conducting intimate interviews across culture, politics, and the arts. Her writing weaves together personal narrative with broader cultural critique, creating pieces that are both deeply researched and poetically rendered. She has since collaborated with artists including Paul Graves, Simons Finnerty, and Barry Yusufu on exhibition texts.

She lives on Patmos, where she runs éla! farm + kitchen—an experimental hospitality project focused on local agriculture, rare wine, and performance.


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“Radical Energy: Penny Slinger”
Good Trouble #21


“Her mission as an artist remains strong: to uplift the divine feminine and equalise a spiritual balance long out of whack. With Slinger’s recent set design for Dior’s FW19 house couture show and the release of Out of the Shadows, a documentary telling the story of her life and work, it is obvious now that her art was prophetic – a future-feminism-now-present, where the feminine and masculine transcend the biological, existing as divine energies in constant creative play.“ 
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