FALL/WINTER 2023 ISSUE

Cover Artist
AMY AIKEN

Amy Aiken is a photographer based in the southern United States whose work captures the beauty and wonder of the world around her. She started practicing photography in earnest in 2017 after earning her PhD in economics and developing a passion for macro photography, which she continues to explore. Photography is her means of engaging with her environment in a creative way. For Aiken, making pictures is a process of discovery, and she endeavors to bring our attention to the beauty in the everyday that is often overlooked.

Featured Artist
DEBBIE STRANGE

Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet, visual artist, and photographer from Canada whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself. Strange’s work has received multiple awards, and thousands of her poems and artworks have been published worldwide. Her most recent book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations, won the Sable Books 2019 International Women’s Haiku Contest and Haiku Canada’s 2022 Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award. Her award-winning haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, is forthcoming from Snapshot Press in 2023.

Please visit her publication archive at https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com.

Featured Poet
MARY KATHERINE CREEL

Mary Katherine Creel lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she has worked as a journalist and counselor to children and families. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is author of the poetry chapbook when fire injures, it leaves a distinctive wound (dancing girl press). Her second chapbook, Every Note, a Lantern, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. Her poems have appeared in Atticus Review, The Weekly Pause, kerning, Nature Writing, otata, 1932 Quarterly, and the Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Read more of her poems and short essays at asmallspectacle.substack.com.