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Waverly Vernon (she/they) is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Florida currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their work explores politics, religious deprogramming, and trauma, transforming personal experience into connection and dialogue. They are the author of the micro chapbook “soft-skinned”, published by Bottlecap Press. Their poetry has also been published by Wildscape Literary Journal, Creation Magazine, Arcana Poetry Press, among others.
I am wading through the anticipatory grief of my own parents’ deaths and what they will leave unfinished. They were deathworkers, working through their own fears of ending, I worked as an archaeologist, picking through the long dead and their unfinished lives. This was visceral. Thank you Waverly.