Dawn Bratton
lives in the colorful San Francisco Bay Area, where she's found a quiet corner to write poetry and prose orbiting the image of eyes and theme of perception. During 2021 - 2023 she served as secretary, and then vice president, on the board of directors for WordSwell literary nonprofit and online journal based out of Oakland, CA. In 2023, she co-founded Moon Blossom Collective, an arts and wellbeing collective, from which she currently helps manages Lunar Light and serves on the board of directors. Her poetry and prose is forthcoming in or has appeared in literary journals like The Bloom, Fjords Review, Oracle, Matter, The Opiate, Modern Literature, The Metaworker, Global Poemic, and Disquiet Arts, among others.
Cover image: detail photograph, 5th annual Los Angeles Performing Arts and Folk Life Festival poster 1977, original art by Robert Owen