‘and the War’ by Jenn Stark

Striped Owl
by Kerfe Roig

and the War

          –Found within Chapter 1 of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis


Jennifer Stark (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist and emerging writer, recently focusing on her writing after more than a decade as a freelance photographer. Her essays, poetry, and fiction explore themes of migration, creativity, and connection within and to the natural world and have appeared in Popshot Literary, Fieldfare Press Magazine, Firewords Magazine, and more. She is based in Toronto, Canada on the traditional territories of the Erie, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas, and can be found at http://jennstark.substack.com and on Instagram/Threads at @jenniferstark.


A resident of New York City,  Kerfe Roig enjoys transforming words and images into something new.  Her poetry and art have been featured online by Silver Birch Press, The song is…, Pure Haiku, Visual Verse, and The Ekphrastic Review and published in Ella@100, Incandescent Mind, the Raw Art Review , The Anthropocene Hymnal: Songs of a self-defining era and several nature inspired anthologies.  Follow her explorations on her blogs, https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/  (which she does with her friend Nina), and https://kblog.blog/, and see more of her work on her website http://kerferoig.com/.