WORDS, *ART, & THINGSS
○ Come Find Me It Said, Full Stop book review of NEW LIFE,
by Ana Božičević, September 2023
⦾ Six poems, Finalist in the Action, Spectacle Editors’ Poetry & Prose
Contest, Winter 2023 Volume
○ *Poem Illustrations, Flowermouth, by Kate Wylie, Fall 2024
⦿ *“The Expiration of an Untimely Horse,” hybrid art/flash fiction
with Kellie Wells, NWR Issue 53|01, Winter 2024
○ “Day Day”, Thin Air Magazine, Issue 31, Spring 2025
⦿ Guest Editor, Action, Spectacle, Winter 2025:
Kellie Wells, Janie Painter, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, Veruŝ Villangó,
Jesse Lee Kercheval
⦾ “Time is a Place,” Slipstream Press, Issue 45: Strange Days, Fall 2025
○ *Cover Illustration, “Spooky Action at a Distance,” Screen Door
Review, Issue 21, October 2025
⦿ “Two in a Moment,” Altar Literary magazine, Issue One, April 2026
⦾ forthcoming
⦿ forthcoming
Verena Raban is a dog person writing & drawing poems & punks & flowers.
She has an MFA in Writing from
Pacific University where she studied poetry.
She is an Anaphora Arts fellow in cultural criticism and a previous SVA Artist Residency resident in multimedia arts.
She was also previously Art Editor, Senior Editor,
and Co-Managing Editor at the Northwest Review.