Yellow Arrow takes great pride in the artwork selected for its journal covers and is excited to spotlight and celebrate their creativity.

Anita Grace Brown

Anita Grace Brown is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of the imaginal, the spiritual, and the visceral, somatic human experience. Drawing from personal healing, nature’s symbolism, and the textures of memory, her work investigates vulnerability and the alchemy of the self. Often dancing, chanting, and practicing breath work before beginning to paint, she embraces the “messy middle” with patience. Creativity has become a space for reconciliation, resilience, and resurrection!! She invites viewers into spaces where the human, the divine, and the imaginal dwell.

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Wonder, Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 2026

Instagram: @anitagracebrown

Clara Garza

Clara Garza is a 16-year-old writer and senior at California State University, Los Angeles. She serves as a politics and world health journalist with The Borgen Project and contributes editorially to numerous journals. Her creative and critical work has earned recognition across essay, photography, performance, and visual arts contests, including in statewide and national outlets like NOAA and KCACTF.

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KAIROS, Vol X, No. 2, Fall 2025

Liz Jakimow

Liz Jakimow is a photographer and poet who lives in the beautiful valley of Araluen in Australia, where she is inspired by the nature and mountains that surround her. After losing a loved one, poems and photos from the initial three-month grieving period were brought together in an exhibition and book titled A journey with grief: exploring loss through photography and poetry.

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Kitalo, Vol IX, No. 2, Fall 2024

Website: www.lizjakimowphotography.com

Lizzie Brown

Lizzie Brown is a Richmond-based artist and owner of From The Core Art Studio. She is a Virginia Commonwealth University alumna with a dual degree in painting and art education, and a minor in art history. Lizzie has been displaying her work in galleries and spaces throughout the southeastern states, Washington, D.C., and Maryland, vending at pop-up markets in surrounding areas and leading art experiences and camps for youth. Lizzie’s connection to creating and teaching are a form of ministry. She creates colorful portraits depicting the beauty, resilience, and vibrancy of African American men, women, and children.

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ELEVATE, Vol IX, No. 2, Spring 2024

Website: www.lizjakimowphotography.com

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo

Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo is a poet, visual artist, and facilitator whose work reflects her Indigenous ancestry and perspectives as a Mexican Chicana woman. Her work has been exhibited across the country, including in solo shows in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as at Centro de Artes Gallery in Texas. She earned a BFA in pictorial art and a BA in French from San José State University and served as 2021 Creative Ambassador of the San José Office of Cultural Affairs. Her artwork has received honorable mentions and is represented in the collection of the City and County of San Francisco.

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EMBLAZON, Vol VIII, No. 2, Fall 2023

Website: ejmontelongo.com

Facebook: @ejmontelongo
Instagram: @elizabethjimenezmontelongo

Violeta Garza

Violeta Garza (she/they/ella) is a Latinx poet, weaver, and artist from the Historic West Side of San Antonio, Texas. Their poems have appeared in Acentos Review, Boundless Anthology 2023, Voices de la Luna, The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, and elsewhere. She has performed original poems and stories for Texas Public Radio, The Alamo Chapter for Human Rights, and The Curtain Up Cancer Foundation.

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KINDLING, Vol VIII, No. 1, Spring 2023

Website: violetagarza.com

Instagram: @violeta.poeta

Daryle Newman

Daryle Newman brings with her a mixture of storytelling and adventure. As a mixed media artist, her art is indicative of the interconnectedness between the natural world, feminism, science, climate change, philosophy, politics, and the metaphysical realm to depict the spaces between. Her practice questions her own and humanity’s effects on the Earth and each other, their ignorance or indifference to make changes, and their triumphs and uniqueness, alongside her belief that beneath habit and conditioning, there is always a desire to be and do better and that women must be their own and each other’s champions. Daryle spent several years overseas in the Republic of the Marshall Islands cofounding an arts NGO, returning to Australia to formalize her passion for the arts industry by completing a Masters of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW Art and Design in 2020. Daryle has since worked at multiple art galleries and NFP creative industries in Sydney, Australia, and continues to hone her own art practice. Her most recent art is a layering of fact and fantasy about the power of the female to be changemakers, both in the realms we understand as real life and in other worlds in which she seeks guidance, contemplation, or distraction. Ultimately, her art celebrates unrepeatable moments by honoring unrepeatable females.

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PEREGRINE, Vol VII, No. 2, Fall 2022

Instagram: @daryle_shefloats

April Graff

April Graff is from Baltimore, Maryland. She now lives in Westminster with her two amazing children, husband, and two family pets. “Spiritual Journey” is her very first published piece of art.

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UpSpring, Vol VII, No. 1, Spring 2022

Website: www.heronsbridge.org

Susan diRende

Susan diRende is a wanderer. She has carved a circuitous, recursive path through the arts as a writer, painter, performer, and filmmaker. She has won numerous awards and grants from, among others, the Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission, Montgomery Arts Association, the Dixie Film Festival, and the Philip K. Dick Awards. Recently, her artwork has been featured in Pareidolia Literary, The Gaze Journal, The London Review, Pine Hills Review, Feral Poetry and Art, 3 Moon Magazine, and Loud Coffee Press. Until Covid-19, she wandered the world with no fixed abode and is looking forward to getting back on the road.

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ANFRACTUOUS, Vol. VI, No. 2, Fall 2021

Kalichi Lamar

Kalichi Lamar’s first name is Taíno for “fountain of the high mountain.” She is from the island of Borikén where her roots are tied to her name and her connection to nature. Kalichi has an MS/MA in Psychology and Arts in Medicine, and she has worked professionally with cancer patients and the elderly. Additionally, Kalichi runs an online shop of wood-burn pieces and crafted items. Her work is inspired by nature and Taíno roots. As smoke envelops her space, it becomes incense and prayer infused into each piece. Kalichi creates to inspire others to reconnect to self, nature, and Spirit.

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RENASCENCE, Vol. VI, No. 1, Spring 2021

Jeanne Quinn

Jeanne Quinn is an artist whose practice encompasses installation, ceramics, lighting, drawing, digital fabrication, knitting, cooking, and mothering. She studied art history and baroque music performance at Oberlin College and earned her MFA from the University of Washington. She has exhibited widely, including at the Denver Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennale, and Art Basel/Design Miami. Jeanne has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the European Ceramic Work Centre, and many others. She is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado.

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(Re)Formation, Vol V, No. 3, Fall 2020

Website: jeannequinnstudio.com

Ann Marie Sekeres

Ann Marie Sekeres went to art school and learned to paint a long time ago. She showed a bit around New York in the 1990s but didn’t get where she wanted to be. She became a very happy museum and nonprofit publicity director and started a family. She found out about the Procreate drawing app from an illustrator she hired, stole her kid’s iPad, and has been drawing every day since. Follow her work on Instagram @annmarieprojects.

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Home, Vol. V, No. 2, Spring 2020

Website: www.annmarieprojects.com/

Facebook: @annmarieprojects
Instagram: @annmarieprojects

Megha Balooni

Megha Balooni is an architect currently residing in India. Realizing her love for stories—written and visual—from early on, she believes these two mediums to be her strongest communications tool. Through her visual designs she strives to curate a more inclusive and optimistic world.

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Resilience, Vol. V, No. 1, Winter 2020

Amber Sliter

Amber Sliter is an artist and activist living and creating in Buffalo, New York. Amber studied painting and art history at the University at Buffalo where she received several awards and scholarships. The Rumsey Scholarship funded participation on a Minoan archaeological dig in Crete, Greece. Her art explores natural and synthetic relationships, relating to her experience as a woman living in the Anthropocene era. Her work ranges between sculptural paintings, installations, and murals to activist prints and performances. Amber is currently apprenticing in a woman run woodworking shop.

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Freedom, Vol. IV, No. 2, Summer 2019

Ava Van Velsor

Ava Van Velsor has published a children’s cookbook, Look What I Can Cook and holds the trademark for a fabric art piece called Dreamvelope. She enjoys creating, writing, and illustrating children’s stories. Ava has a BS in Sociology and a career in the social service arena. She has a wonderful husband, Bill, three children, and six grandchildren. Living currently in Astoria, Oregon, and Goldendale, Washington, Ava enjoys being with family, walking the beach in Astoria, and taking in the breathtaking high desert views in Goldendale.

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Courage, Vol. III, Summer 2018

Marie Hassell Doctorchik

Marie Hassell Doctorchik​ is a part time nurse and full time mom. She finds inspiration everywhere and loves learning new things. She explores her interests on her You Tube channel And the Color Green where she posts a new video every Monday called “Monday Mixed Plate.” She also creates a monthly face mask subscription box called Face Mask Alchemy.

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Time, Vol. II, Winter 2018

Jenna Boyles

Jenna Boyles​ is currently a graduate student in the Art & Technology Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited work in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh, as well as local and regional arts festivals. All four panels of Red Grace, as well as past and current works, can be seen on her website.

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Journey, Vol. I, Summer 2017

Website: jennaboyles.com.