liezel graham

author | poet | thread artist

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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.

Tag: on growing up in a chaotic home

  • on being wild.

    i am not soft and beautiful, fluent in the language of women who know how to act, how to speak, how to be, round and pliable and tame. this truth, i have always known, and i carry it fiercely. i am thorn and metal, shaped by war. and, somewhere between nine and all the other…