“Dhanaivi at 16 in the South Bronx”
Artist Sarah Van Sanden: Since fire in this poem reads as both a creative and a destructive force, I was really conflicted about how to represent it, but it has a huge presence that I couldn’t avoid. Writer Dolan Morgan: The light and colorful approach here brings out more of the youth of the characters than was present in my brain’s terrible rendition.
Collaborators: Writer Dolan Morgan lives and writes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His work has been featured in The Believer, The Lifted Brow, Field, TRNSFR, apt, Cricket Online Review, Fortnight and numerous other journals. Artist Sarah Van Sanden lives in Seattle. She has studied visual art, botany, and design and makes her living designing and building landscapes.