COVER ARTIST KATIE RYAN Katie Ryan is a visual artist, actress, and filmmaker. Her paintings are Biomorphic Abstractions, representing what might be seen if you could place a microscope on an emotion felt in the body. Deeply interested in the female experience, Elora is about fertility, both its profound delicacy and gravity. Ryan currently lives and works in Los Angeles and co-owns the indie film production company Birdy Fox Films. Follow her on Instagram @ katie.ryan.art
FEATURED ARTIST MARINA SAVASHYNSKAYA DUNBAR Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar was born in Minsk, Belarus, and moved to the United States when she was nine years old. Dunbar studied business and art at Columbus State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2016. Her paintings are nature-based abstractions, composed through harmonious movement, material improvisation, and layers of translucent color. The paintings bare resemblance to elements in nature while simultaneously departing from literal representations. Each painting seeks a level of reservation as well as an embrace of the unforeseeable. Dunbar currently lives and works in Charleston, South Carolina.
FEATURED POET GARY YOUNG Gary Young’s most recent books are That’s What I Thought, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books, and Precious Mirror, translations from the Japanese. His books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; The Dream of a Moral Life which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. Young has received grants from the NEH, NEA, the California Arts Council, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, among others. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.
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