INTRODUCTION
Emma Winchell is a poet, film photographer, and student at the Moody Bible Institute. She was a writer for Moody's Literary Practicum, in which she curated creative writing submissions for Thin Space Art & Theology Journal and crafted journalistic compositions for the ARCH Yearbook.
Her poetry and creative writing has been published by Ekstasis, Foreshadow Magazine, the Clayjar Review, and Thin Space Art & Theology.
Emma currently lives in Chicago, IL. When not writing or studying, she enjoys reading fiction, sipping oat milk cappuccinos, observing birds, hiking, dancing almost anywhere, and having meaningful conversation.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Beauty is an apologetic. When beholding something excellent, one naturally inquires as to the identity of the artist. I pursue this teleological excellence in poetry and film photography, mediums which have the power to articulate the tangible and transcendent. Much of my work has the ethic of Emily Dickinson’s “Tell All Truth But Tell It Slant,” conveying redemptive realities in visuals and stanzas.
I seek to write poetry that is personal yet not cathartic, emotional yet not sentimental. To write poetry is to exercise the heart and the intellect, the imagination and the memory. I hope to advance the craft in a way that is led by the Spirit and informed by poets who have gone before. Film also involves the art of observation, and a diligence that is often thin in today’s society. Much of my film work is documentation, articulating the mundane and whispering a sense of divine longing.
