ARTWORKS
BY MEGAN MERCHANT
About The Project
I have been working, lately, with composites, combining two or more images to create a different impression. I like the physical element paired with the historic or imaginative, what already-is paired with something unexpected. It’s an access point into imagination and possibility. For these, I use a photograph that I’ve taken, a mixed media piece, or blocks of wood that I have painted and combine them with images from the Smithsonian Open Access Archives, drawing something that might otherwise be quieted into history and giving it a place in the contemporary conversation.
Megan Merchant (she/her) is the owner of www.shiversong.com and holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV. She is a visual artist and the author of three full-length collections with Glass Lyre Press, four chapbooks, and a children’s book, These Words I Shaped for You (Penguin Random House). Her book, Before the Fevered Snow, was released in April 2020 with Stillhouse Press (NYT New & Noteworthy). She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, the Inaugural Michelle Boisseau Prize and most recently the New American Poetry Prize. She is the Editor of Pirene’s Fountain. You can find her poems and artwork at https://meganmerchant.wixsite.com/poet.
