Persevering During the Pandemic: Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and ConnectionThis edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID 19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them escape, however briefly, from the traumas of the pandemic, the