My work is confessional and takes root in memory and imagination, where the boundaries between the visible and invisible worlds are blurred.I create to remember.

I write about echoes, longing, and the strange beauty of being alive, seeking conversation with what hums in the ordinary. My work explores themes of relationship, sexuality, culture, and the oddly spiritual.

The impulse behind my visual art and my written work is the same: to express what demands to be expressed and tell what is mine to tell. My paintings and illustrations often emerge intuitively, the way a poem does. Together these practices are my way of tracing energy and the unseen currents of connection that run through people, nature, and the numinous.

I hold an MFA in fiction writing and a background in studio art and theology. My creative life in an ongoing act of synthesis and attempt to merge the cosmic with the grounded, the personal with the universal. I hope that when I share my work, my readers recognize themselves in it and remember that love, in all its forms, is what we are.

[Lori-Lyn Hurley is a writer and artist living in Kentucky. Find her work at Creative Living Diaries on Substack.]