liezel graham

author | poet | thread artist

I am a storyteller and a poet.

I use words and thread, pencil and needle, paper and fabric.

my work is an ongoing conversation with myself.

Category: stitching — ‘words with elizabeth’ project

a narrative stitching project about childhood memories of domestic violence

  • hundreds and hundreds of them—small marks, each an entire poem, a moment shaped from ‘before, during, and after’ and each connected to a thread that gets cut, but remains a part, remains proof that there was a woman, who in the face of it all, chose to make a cup of sweet tea, chose to…