Borderline Marilyn
Mixed-media collage painting on gallery canvas

Copyrighted © by Lorette C. Luzajic. All rights reserved.
Reproduced here with artist’s permission.

Let Yourself Forget How Your Story Began
Mixed-media collage painting on gallery canvas

Copyrighted © by Lorette C. Luzajic. All rights reserved.
Reproduced here with artist’s permission.

Morning Glory
Mixed-media collage painting

Copyrighted © by Lorette C. Luzajic. All rights reserved.
Reproduced here with artist’s permission.

Mysteries
Mixed-media collage painting on watercolor paper

Copyrighted © by Lorette C. Luzajic. All rights reserved.
Reproduced here with artist’s permission.

Lorette C. Luzajic

studied journalism at Ryerson University, but went on to pursue creative writing and visual art after graduating. The author of more than 20 books, she writes most often about art, travel, and interesting people. She has several books of essays on these subjects, as well as four of poetry, with a fifth collection featuring ekphrastic prose poetry released recently: Pretty Time Machine.

Ms. Luzajic is the founder and editor of The Ekphrastic Review (established 2015), a publication devoted exclusively to publishing poetry and prose inspired by visual art. Her own prose and poems have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Bookslut, Calliope, Cargo Literary, Cultural Weekly, Everyday Poetry, the Fiddlehead, Grain, Indelible, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Main Street Rag, Misfit, Nine Muses Poetry, Peacock Journal, Rattle, Taxicab Mag, and Wild Word, as well as in numerous anthologies such as Unsheathed (ed. Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press) and The Group of Seven Reimagined (ed. Karen Schauber, Heritage Books).

Her writing has been nominated twice for the Best of the Net award and twice for the Pushcart Prize, and her award-winning mixed-media artwork has been exhibited around the world, from the Royal Ontario Museum to Mexico to Tunisia.

Artist’s website: www.mixedupmedia.ca

Artist’s column in Good Food Revolution: Wine and Art

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ A Review of Pretty Time Machine: Ekphrastic Prose Poems by Jenene Ravesloot (4 February 2020) on Facebook

⚡ Four poems and four collage artworks from Risk Being / Complicated: Poems by Devon Balwit, Inspired by the Collage Art of Lorette C. Luzajic, reprinted in KYSO Flash (Issue 12, Summer 2019):

I Have Loved You Since the World Began,

Place Me Like a Seal Over Your Heart

You Think You Know Me

You Walk By and I Fall to Pieces

⚡ Fresh Strawberries, an ekphrastic prose poem by Ms. Luzajic in KYSO Flash (Issue 11, Spring 2019), which nominated it for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize

⚡ The Scarecrow (for Matthew Shepard), an ekphrastic lineated poem in KYSO Flash (Issue 6, Fall 2016)