...does charcoal drawings, acrylic paintings, monoprints and monoprint collages, block prints, papier mache sculptures, and digital photography. Subjects include human figures and portraits, still life, landscape, and religious, especially Christian, iconography.

Blackwell has worked as an artists' model for fifteen years, including eight years as the staff model at Columbia College (Columbia, MO) and eight years as a full-time member of the Bay Area Models Guild. Blackwell is a founding member of the dark electronic band Odor of Pears. She is the creator of the world's only website about late British character actor James Booth (see www.jamesbooth.org). She has published feature articles and reviews in Matter, Trouser Press, The Women's Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Vegetarian Times, The Animals' Agenda, and many others. She has a B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.