Allie Rigby is a poet with roots in the chaparral and deserts of Southern California. She is the author of Moonscape for a Child (Bored Wolves, 2024) and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania. Her poetry appears on NPR’s Living on Earth Radio, WFIU’s The Poet’s Weave, Equatorial Literary Magazine, Parentheses Journal, Manzano Mountain Review, and more. She has a master’s degree in English: Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and has taught at Ovidius University, Pepperwood Preserve, Point Reyes Institute, The Loft Literary Center, and the US–Romanian Embassy. She's also the curator behind Living Poetry on Substack, where she invites folks to join monthly, 50-minute poetry chats with a growing community. She's on Instagram @allie.j.rigby.
Julia Rigby is the illustrator behind Moonscape for a Child. She's most known as an experimental sound artist, composer, and sculptor who thinks about entanglements among humans and more-than-humans, phenomena and sound. You can explore and engage with her work here. She's also on Instagram @julia.edith.rigby.
Bored Wolves is the indie publisher based in Kraków and the Polish Highlands.
The essay "Poetry as prayer" by Hyejung Kook is from the book Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill & Lisbeth White.
A writer who has recently inspired Allie is Brenda Hillman, who is a poet and educator, and a vital part of the California literary community since 1975.
You can subscribe to Allie's newsletter Living Poetry here and find all of Allie's work on her website www.allierigby.com.
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