“You Know, They Used to Burn Women Like You at the Stake.” 

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.