Living and working in Happy Valley, Michele Mekel is an educator, bioethicist, poetess, creatrix, cat herder, witch, and woman who engages with various entangled media in her creative processes. Her whimsical and often weird creations speak to imagination, awe, wonder, play, and the human experience. For Mekel, art making is a path for exploring and developing an understanding of the world--both inner and outer. Her creative work takes two main forms: written and visual. With more than 150 published poems and a recent chapbook ("Under a Quiet Moon"), her words have appeared in numerous creative and academic publications, been featured on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac," and been nominated for Best of the Net.
