Woman...Scien(TES)t...Poet

Glimpses Into Me

(TES)

I am a scientist and poet residing in Northern Kentucky with my husband and teenager. I serve the community as an Environmental Safety Specialist for the Greater Cincinnati Water Works. I have always existed comfortably intertwined amongst the scientific and creative worlds. I appreciate the numinous value of the natural world and bring it home to the page. Due to this juxtaposition of creativity and science, I am inspired by the green edges, forgotten spaces, and the veiled, shaded corners of rooms we inhabit. Our moments hold vigor and rot in the same breath. We experience these moments all day, every day; that’s what I aim to write about. To date my work has been published in The Ravens Perch, Pangyrus, Arts of Thought, Constellate Literary Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Knights Library Magazine, The Wax Paper, and is forthcoming in other publications.

My website, in part, will document this journey and serve as a repository for deep thoughts, struggles, adventures, celebrations, and allow a safe space to be authentic. The purpose of the website and blog is twofold, I want to share my poetry and other poets that inspire me and I want to create a beautiful space for self-discovery, mine and yours. My goal with the website is to provide: support for poetry and poets, a space for my photography, updates in my journey, processing this calamity called life, mental health, plant-nerding out, nature, science, and healing our trauma. It may seem like those varied things are not related but in my world they’re kindred spirits through a collaborative web that is my life poetic.

Tara E Sturgill

March 2022

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