Featured ARt Art

Banner: “Dual Deer” by Ruby Wang.

Ruby Wang (she/they) is a multimedia artist currently pursuing BA degrees in English and Visual Arts at Duke University. Her pieces attempt to evoke a meditative and peaceful internal experience, intended to juxtapose the deeply tumultuous aspects of the world’s political and social circumstances. They are inspired by their intelligent friends and the insights offered by them during conversations, but they are also easily influenced: even how a leaf looks during a leisurely walk or listening to a song lyric can be enough to inspire Ruby. Introspection in her pieces drive a motivation to change, that refiguring the world can be achieved through imagination and action.

Flash Cover: “Borders” by Shanmukh Gollu

Shanmukh Gollu is an artist and writer, residing in India. He earned a bachelor's degree from the M.S. University of Baroda in Fine Arts in 2022. He writes and draws, usually in the spectrum of screams, or spits, or cries, and sometimes laughs, reacting to his social experiences. His works reflect on the negotiations made between different identities that we assume and shed every day, tuning and adjusting in response to each other’s politics. His visuals draw from literature, films, history, social media and from his own writings.

Fiction Cover: “Dis-embody: Wells” by Winslow Schmelling

Winslow Schmelling is a writer, teacher, and maker from the Sonoran Desert. She has an M.F.A in Fiction from Arizona State University and B.A. in Modern Languages from Northern Arizona University. She teaches creative writing and interdisciplinary arts in and around Phoenix. Her creative work explores deserts, magic, cycles of landscape and family, and how to coax the scent of rain from a creosote bush. She is at work on a novel about sisters and survival.

Artist Interview Cover: “Seasick” by Mirjana Miric.

Mirjana Miric (they / them) are a digital artist and writer from Belgrade, Serbia. Their work focuses on exploring the juxtaposition of various elements through mixed media of photography, double exposure, textures and light. Their work most often explores concepts of duality and has appeared in “Gulf Stream Literary”, “The Good Life Review”, “waxing & waning”, Vocivia, Broken Antler, Spellbinder, New Limestone Review magazines and other places. They authored 3 poetry collections. You can see more of their work at their blog olorielmoonshadow.wordpress.com or get in touch on Twitter (@selena_oloriel) and Instagram (@cyanide_cherries).