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Cherise Lily Nana is a writer, poet, and editor. Through text and image, her work explores how we encounter soul and the beauty of the great mystery. Born in Australia of Ghanaian and Scottish descent, her perspectives are rooted in animist philosophies: circling the ways in which we cultivate relationship with the unseen and more-than-human worlds. She is particularly interested in thresholds—the ambiguous spaces between identities, peoples, and ways of being—and the role that art, myth, symbol, and ritual can play in navigating them. Cherise’s poetry and essays have appeared in Tokyo Poetry Journal, Clarion Poetry Quarterly, Dumbo Feather, Paradiso and CosmoMuse. Five Rivers is her first collection of poetry, and she is currently creating a series of oracle decks in collaboration with visual artists. In her broader life, Cherise loves dancing, wandering through art museums, slow mornings spent reading aloud with her partner (everything from children's fiction to epic poetry), drinking hojicha tea, and talking to the frogs that co-inhabit her home in Bali. |