Anna Amiradaki

A behind the scenes experience inside Jacque Bidon's Printing Studio in South Providence. Read the Full Interview in Issue 2. Jacques Bidon, master printer and owner of Bidon Studio in South Providence. Photo credit: Ifan Lewis Relief plates. Photo credit: Ifan Lewis Rebecca Grunkenmeyer, contributor, Jacques Bidon, master printer, and Anna Amoiradaki, Khiton's editor. Photo Credit: Ifan Lewis Anna Amoiradaki, Editor and Publisher of Khiton with Jacques Bidon observing recent work. Photo...

Editor's Note | June 2026 When we first sat down with Julie Gerstenblatt for our Writers in Our Backyard series, her debut novel, Daughters of Nantucket, had received an enormous response from her readers. Our conversation ranged from childhood memories of stories and the discipline of a writing life to the responsibility writers carry in asking the enduring question: So what? Since then, Julie has continued to chart an ambitious literary course. Her second novel, The Stargazer of Nantucket,...

Dr. Achina Stein, owner of Functional Mind, Providence. A note from the editor There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has become almost universal: the exhaustion of a body that has been tested, medicated, referred, retested, and is still not well. It is the exhaustion not just of symptoms, but of not being believed or listened to. Of being handed a prescription for something that treats the surface while the deeper question goes unasked. Functional medicine begins with that question....