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Women :: Non-binary :: Art :: Fiction :: Poetry

Collage. Background: pond with lily pads. Foreground: Two hands gripping a koi as if to bend it in half. One fish eye is showing.

Sleeping Lotus / Katherine Huang

Encaustic brushstrokes: light blue upper right corner, orange-yellow in the middle; dark green in lower left corner. Overlaid with white

Artist Interview / Chizu Omori

Forest path with bright light

Black Summertime / Jasmine Harris

Encaustic painting. yellow brushstrokes with dark green in the lower right corner and blue in the lower left corner, and smudges of brown throughout.

Casey Kasem you always tap out at forty / alexa doran

Black and white collage. A woman's eye up close with lightning striking in the center.

Lightning / Kathryn Petruccelli

Abstract painting: Yellow paint in lower left corner; blue in upper right corner. White background

Slow Living / Brittney Corrigan

Fennel plant

what we carry / melody wang

encaustic with deep straight rows in the upper left and lower right corners. White with layers of light blue and dark yellow below. A deep smudge of dark blue is in the middle.

Photos We Never Took in 1998 / Mary Biddinger

encaustic art in yellow and green with a smudge of dark blue in the lower left corner.

Ekphrastic pantoum on revenge / simone person

Geometrical shapes in blue, red, and black

to erase a memory / catherine gander

Encaustic art. White with dark blue below and a smudge of red in lower corner. Looks like an aerial shot of the arctic.

tracking numbers / Tiffany Babb

Wedding veil

Constellation of Bruises / Praniti Gulyani

Abstract art. Lava paint swirling into black

rid this house of mirrors / kathleen hellen

Encaustic painting. Abstract brushstrokes yellow and white with smudges of brown and blue

Artifact / Theresa Pappas

Barnacles

Antiquities / Michele Sharpe

encaustic painting. Brushstrokes of white with under layers of dark blue, orange and red.

Fairlies: Home of Lost Souls / Sonia FL Leung

Art: Chizu Omori, Molly Dunham, & Public Domain