Leah Kogen-Elimeliah is a poet and writer, originally from Moscow. She earned her MFA from the City College of New York, where she is currently an adjunct assistant professor. Founder and director of WordShedNYC reading series and an Editorial Associate for Fiction magazine, Leah has collaborated on various poetry/visual/dance projects with independent artists, experimenting with cross genres, multimedia, and poetry. Her writing focuses on identity, language, sexuality, and culture.
City College of New York
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by Leah Kogen-Elimeliah
For Sara Ludy, an American artist from Bluemont, a town in rural Virginia near the Appalachian Trail, the unknown, the unseen, and the ghostlike is what drives her creativity to those shadowy and unfamiliar territories. This is where questions and what she refers to as paranormal experiences, help gauge her sense of belonging while getting inside the virtual and the metaphysical worlds, touching on what Sara regards as “energy” that produces and shapes her works of art.