The Meadow Annual Literary Arts Journal 2021

200 The Meadow Natasha Pepperl’s work will appear in the forthcoming edition of Lily Poetry Review and has been published by The Anti-Languorous Project, Rocky Mountain Public Media, The Denver Post, Spiritus Mundi, riverrun, and others. She is also the co-host of the Just As Special foster care podcast. Melanie Perish’s poems have appeared in West Trestle Review, Persimmon Tree, Sinister Wisdom, Calyx, in addition to anthologies and other publications. Passions & Gratitudes, (Black Rock Press, 2011) and The Fishing Poems (Chapbook, Meridian Press, 2017) are her most recent collections. A.M. Potter is a PhD student in creative writing at Oklahoma State University. Potter’s writing has been published in The Storyteller, The Ghazal Page, and Caterpillar. EE Rankin is an actor, director, and artist who specializes in immersive performance. She currently lives and works in New Mexico, and is represented by South West Artist Group. For the past two decades she’s explored the world of production extensively, participating in 50 film productions and over a hundred theatrical productions. During her years spent in Austin, Texas, she helped bring to life shows like Whirligig Theatre’s Deus Ex Machina, a choose-your-own-adventure based on the Oresteia, and Penfold Theatre’s Murder on the Rails, a murder mystery series performed aboard the Austin Steam Train. With Meason Wiley, she co-created and developed Verstehen, an improvisational performance series for sound and live painting that toured the west coast in 2017. From 2018-2020, she worked with Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico, both as a performer in The House of Eternal Return and as a Project Manager for Meow Wolf ’s Interactive division. In 2019, she directed The Garage, a Meow Wolf performance which featured five unique Magic Leap headset experiences and a company of ten actors. The piece made Forbes’ list of the Top 35 XR Installations of 2019.

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