Notes /Materials:
collaged images primarily from National Geographic Magazine March 1990 Vol. 177 No. 3 “Siberia in from the Cold”; National Geographic
Magazine July 2023 “The Exploration Issue”; Cassell’s Directory of Plants for Family Gardens: Everything You Need to Create a Garden by Lucy Huntington (2000)
text sourced from Traits of a Healthy Family (Ballantine Books, 1983)
Jessica Dawn Zinz (she/her) is a writer, artist, and professor living in Ohio. She has a Creative Writing MFA and teaches writing at Bowling Green State University. Her poetry, artwork, and visual poems have been published most recently in TAB Journal, ctrl+v journal, RHINO Poetry, and Harpy Hybrid Review. Her work has been anthologized in the Driftwood 2024 Anthology. She has work forthcoming in Diode. Jessica is currently working on visual poetry, collage poetry, and other hybrid writing and art related to aging, pregnancy, motherhood, and marriage. Instagram: @jessicadawnzinzart.