Inspiration is the seed of all creation. Thus, we would like to showcase some of our favorite work that inspires our art. Maybe it will inspire you too.

Fiction

• Parachute Kids by Elaine Hsieh Chou
• The Boy who Arrives in a Box by Melissa Goodrich and Dana Diehl
• How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich by Samantha Schmidt
• Footnotes on a Love Story by K-Ming Chang

Creative Nonfiction

• Object Lessons by Erin L. Thompson
• I hoisted them, two drug dealers, I guess that's what they were,  by Dianne Seuss
• The Crane Wife  by CJ Hauser

Poetry

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Dead Doe: I by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
• Perihelion: A History of Touch  by Franny Choi
• Dinosaurs in the Hood  by Danez Smith
• You Can Take Off Your Sweater, I've Made Today Warm by Paige Lewis
• Three Poems by Yanyi
• Scheherazade by Richard Siken
• Jessica gives me a chill pill by Angie Sijun Lou
• Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito by Tarfia Faizullah

Art

• Nicoletta Ceccoli
• Yayoi Kusama 
• Shepard Fairey 
• Claire Morgan
• Evelyn Bencicova
• Yifan Jiang