Oola Waistbinder is an artist and writer. Ms. Waistbinder has published three collections of poetry, "Ribeye," "The Discovery of Bones Should Be Frightening," and "The Beard I Knew I'd Find You By." Her dental floss mobiles have been featured at the Centre Pompidou, and she has choreographed two commissioned pieces for UNESCO," "Slick as the Fingers That Slapped Her," and "Somersaulting Crawfish."

Ms. Waistbinder spent her childhood in New England and moved to Switzerland as a teenager. An avid alpinist, Waistbinder has bivouacked on the Dufourspitze and much of her work draws inspiration from her experiences climbing.

Educated at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Waistbinder is the 2009 Barbe à Papa Fellow.

Originally corset-makers, the Waistbinders were among the first settlers to land at Plimouth Plantation. Ms. Waistbinder is working on a family history that includes a catalog of Pilgrim undergarments along with first-person accounts of romance at Plimoth Rock.

After seeing one of Ms. Waistbinder's site-specific installations in Amsterdam's red light district, she was invited to join the Brothel by The Madame. Ms. Waistbinder is delighted to be a part of this community where love and creativity is celebrated openly. She is currently developing a memoir based on her experimental collaborations with other members of the Brothel.