About the Artist

Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright, and workshop facilitator from the Boston area. She’s the author of four poetry collections, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March 2023. Her poems are published in Common Ground Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Allium, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush, and more. Her images have been featured on the cover of About Place, Synkroniciti, Cool Beans Lit, Josephine Quarterly, Young Ravens Literary Review, Etymology, and more.

Kelly produces the Featured Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. Her abstract photos celebrate nature's beauty and organic complexity from the habitat of her home on the Charles River. She’s interested in how nature can call to the human psyche through the human eye and communicate to the spirit with beauty, peace, and reverence. Beauty is food for our bodies, minds, and spirits. It's a buffer against the trials and tragedies of the world.