THE WOMAN WITHIN: MEMORY AS MUSE

The Woman Within: Memory as Muse offers an edgy collaboration of the heart and mind that challenges and honors gender sensibilities, memories, and evolving meanings.

The Woman Within: Memory as Muse, is a treasure. A collaboration of unique talent that sends creative and thoughtful ripples through the pond.

— Douglas Mehrens, founder of the Museum of Encaustic Art, Encaustic Art Institute, and Encaustic Arts Magazine

The authors deftly invite us to a place of calm reflection in which diversity, respectfulness, and choice are honored.

— Sheary Clough Suiter, visual artist and educator

This book is a visually charming memoir-cum-paeon to the feminine by artist Tami Phelps, her husband poet Kerry Dean Feldman, and photographer Richard J. Murphy.

— David McElroy, author of Water the Rocks Make, University of Alaska Press

Alaska visual artist Tami Phelps’ work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Encaustic art (Santa Fe, NM) and the Anchorage Museum (Anchorage, AK). She attended college and Montessori education in Hawaii, Arizona, Colorado, and Washington, receiving her B.Ed. degree from University of Alaska Anchorage. Her art is on the cover of Drunk on Love: Twelve Stories to Savor Responsibly (Cirque Press, 2019, by Kerry Dean Feldman), and covers of Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim. She is author of Miss Tami Is Today Tomorrow? Kindergarten in Alaska: Stories for Grown-Ups (Cirque Press, 2021), illustrated by Tammy Murray, with Kerry Dean Feldman.

Kerry Dean Feldman is currently a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage after a four-decade career (PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder). Five Star/Gale (Maine) published his historical western novel, Alice’s Trading Post: A Novel of the West (2022). Cirque Press published several poems in Cirque journal, his short story collection, Drunk on Love; Twelve Stories to Savor Responsibly (2019), and his noir murder mystery set in Montana, Kettle Dance: A Big Sky Murder (2022).

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