Elaine Johanson is a Philadelphia-based writer and artist. In 2020, she published And And (Elm Twig Press), a chapbook of poems and photographs with photographer Jan C. Almquist that explores her family’s history and her own Korean identity. Her work in wheel-thrown ceramics explores lightness and balance, and this physical practice has come to inform her writing.
Poetry
Winter 2024
“You Know, They Used to Burn Women Like You at the Stake.”
My therapist has studied the normal, and I have come up wanting. Wanting. My son’s first act was to crawl to my breast. To turn your head from milk is […]