About

This is a love story. One I’m still writing. One to keep me company in the cabin alone. One with mud and a coming together of carbon.

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Anna Black is a writer, photographer, and visual artist living in the Pacific Northwest. Black received her BA in creative writing and interdisciplinary studies from Western Washington University and her MFA from Arizona State University where she studied under the poets Norman Dubie, Cynthia Hogue, and Alberto Rios as well as the writers Matt Bell and Tara Ison and the artist Heather Green. Black was born in the Sonoran but bloomed in the rainforest.

She keeps hoping to stitch up some threads that turn into seams — seams that turn into seamlessness, into merging. Merging of whatever this timeline is with trees that have arms, people that are estuaries for the birds.

 

This is a love story for the trees, the moss, the rain, the mud and the lakes. For the kids that knew they could hear the trees. For the trees that could hear us kids.