Imogen Arate Non-Member Joined 2020

An Asian-American artist in search of hope

Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Visual Art Photography

Imogen Arate is an Asian-American artist in search of hope: that humanity will overcome our self-destructive tendencies to work together against the onslaught of the climate crisis. She's also the Executive Director of Poets and Muses, an award-winning multimedia artist platform that has featured diverse contemporary poetic voices from around the globe.

After yet another stalking-and-harassment-induced forced relocation interrupted her work on Poets and Muses, she spent a year tracking news coverage of femicides within the United States. She believes that we will only be able to value lives equally when we lend our ears and hearts to the life stories of those we don't readily recognize as our kin and stop requiring the presence of certain socioeconomic trappings to recognize people's right to a dignified existence.