Shauna Potocky is a poet and painter with a deep love of high peaks, jagged ridgelines and ice. She has a strong connection to the natural world—both landscapes and seascapes with their rough or subtle edges, where life unfolds. Shauna is the author of Yosemite Dawning: Poems of the Sierra Nevada published by CIRQUE Press (2023). Her work appears in Writing Through The Apocalypse published by Weeping Willow Books (2023), Seward Unleashed Water and Wonder (2023), Beyond Words International Literary Journal, Cirque Journal, Alaska Women Speak and her forthcoming book of poetry Sea Smoke, Spindrift and Other Spells is scheduled to be published by CIRQUE Press and features poems from our very own Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve, McCarthy, Nabesna and beyond.