For Granddaughters, Can I Pray in English

Isabella X.

• Artist Statement

  My work aims to tease beauty out of the trivial: I feature topics such as rain, simple family interactions, and food. With these portrayals, I hope to encourage readers to slow down and take time to appreciate the beauty in everyday life.

• Creative Statement

  My writing is at once an outlet for emotion—whether it's passion, anger, or apathy—and a way for me to make sense of the world. I'm constantly scribbling down moments of quiet intimacy and transforming it into prose as a way of teasing out the beauty in everyday life.