About
Maggie Meiners is is an interdisciplinary artist whose work revolves around identity, consumerism, media, and popular culture. Heavily influenced by image culture and how it personally affects her, Meiners deftly deploys photography, stock imagery, film stills, cultural artifacts and magazines to tackle subjects such as identity, gender, and social status. Using appropriation, assemblage, film making and installations, Meiners explores the psychological affects of popular imagery on her psyche.
Her interests lie in deconstructing the current cultural narrative as a way of empowerment and defining her personal identity. The internal conflicts that manifest from the constant barrage of the media as well as societal expectations (both self-imposed and external) within the current social construct are also represented in her work. Using these varied modes and mediums, Meiners’ work highlights feminism and contemporary notions of gender, domesticity, beauty, consumption, and body image.
Kelly Q. Anderson is a writer, artist, and President of the Off Campus Writers’ Workshop. Her stories and photos have appeared in The New York Times, Atticus Review, StanchionZine, Scrawl Place, Lucky Jefferson, Litro, and more. She served as a Fellow (The Porches, Norwood, Virginia) and a writer-in-residence (The Writers Colony in Eureka Springs, Arkansas), for flash fiction/nonfiction (think short, punchy narratives).
Her short-form stories have been anthologized, installed as public art, and adapted for film. She teaches writing workshops and is the artist behind Flash Cards by KQA, micro art prints featuring one sentence stories of her published work.
That Old Beautiful Love is a flash fiction story originally published in Stanchion Zine in 2022 by Editor Jeff Bogle who admitted that he spit out his morning coffee by the time he reached the story’s epic finale. The flash fiction piece went on to be nominated for Best MicroFiction Award before Maggie Meiners penned the script.
