Karen Burnette Garner is a native of Georgia, a state in the American South, and has painted professionally since 1983. Her paintings of Charleston, SC scenes and the American lowcountry are highly collected. As she explores a variety of art media, she has been led to new experiments in multimedia abstractions to ceramic sculpture. A published literary reviewer and essayist, artist and illustrator, and an award-winning, published poet, she continues to evolve as a true renaissance woman. Ms. Garner currently creates from her new studio in Robesonia, Pennsylvania.

We’re at a time when there’s this reckoning, a kind of cultural and racial reckoning going on in this country. It’s racial and also sexual; over women and then over sexual identity. So, all of this is coming—and then climate change—all of this, all at once.

What can be found in the liner notes of this book is a young person trying to find their place in the outer world and inner world that exists in their head

We’d decided to try out Calf, the restaurant where the only thing on the menu was calf. Each set of diners was assigned their own room, called a “pen.” When we got there, the host walked us to our pen and latched the door.