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, Northwest Review 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
⦾ “A Love Poem," Girls and Queers to the Front, Queer Erotica Zine 4, May 2026
⦿ “Letter to the Expanding Universe,” Fruitslice, Issue 11, Trans*, Summer 2026
⦾ “Of the Elements, It Is All Too Much," Salon Zine, Entropy, Summer 2026
○ *"I See You through the Smoke" and "In the Terror of the Mind," The Madison Review, Volume 52, Fall 2025
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 2020 SVA Artist Residency participant in multimedia arts. Previously, she was
Art Editor, Senior Editor, and Co-Managing Editor
at the Northwest Review.
Currently residing in Birmingham, AL, she is a member of Ground Floor Contemporary art gallery.