Welcome to my first digital home for my in-progress poems and all of the art I’ve been working on behind-the-scenes. I’m grateful to be able to cultivate this space and share my art with you. I don’t know when or how we said hello, but thank you.

Whether you discovered me in your local coffee shop with fountain pen in hand (scribbling on an old receipt), spied me from a distance, or even met me through this new digital frontier, now, I say hello and thank you. Your contributions continue to sustain me as I pursue my true soul’s passion: poetry and art in all manner of its expression.

On this page, I will share all the poetry, which occupies the liminal space of in-between for me, which includes, but is not limited to, old drafts, work which never made it to publication, and new poetry I’m working on as well.

For $7 a month, you will get an exclusive look at special artifacts including old drafts of now published poems, in-progress poems to be published, and so much more. This is the only place to witness my most up-to-date work.

I hope you’ll stick around for some words because I’ve got plenty of them to press to this page.

-Ilyssa


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I am a creator — a writer and poet who explores the nature of the repressed female psyche, myth, and fantasy within my art.