Yours Truly 2016 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA | Page 117

Tracy Phutikanit Courtney Putnam Cascadia College Faculty What inspires me to create art is the ability to make something that is old or familiar, suddenly new and exciting, simply by changing the perspective or point of view. Visit my website at www.tracyphutikanit.smugmug.com. Cascadia College Faculty I am associate faculty at Cascadia and feel fortunate to be the instructor for Yours Truly this year. I am a multi-passionate artist who loves to combine the written word and visual art to create mixed media and hybrid works, like my book and card deck Body Cards, which will be published in August of this year. You can find my website here: http://www.rising-bird.com. Angel Resurreccion Cascadia College Student My name is Angel Resurreccion, and I enjoy writing short stories and poetry on my own time. I’ve always found reading and writing fulfilling, and I love that I can express myself creatively through literature. Tori Saneda Natalie Serianni Cascadia College Faculty I’m an educator, anthropologist, book lover, master procrastinator, sometimes writer; and photography is my zen experience. In May 2015, I visited New Mexico and spent time in the area where Georgia O’Keefe spent the last part of her life. While the landscape was incredibly colorful, in my mind’s eye I kept seeing it in stark black and white, which seemed to capture the starkness of the landscape. Cascadia College Faculty Natalie Serianni is a full-time faculty member in English at Cascadia, marking almost ten years at the college. She is inspired by her observations of people, as well as grief, loss and small, often magical, moments. Her poetry has been performed and published in Yours Truly, Crosscurrents and Cold Mountain Review. 115