My poetry collection ‘Hope is Rebellion’ is officially out by Tigerpetal Press and can be purchased through them:
https://tigerpetalpress.com/chapbook_teicher_hope-is-rebellion.html

I wanted to focus on the idea that change can only come about if we believe that it can. In times of such pain and rampant destruction, the concept of hope is one that I see quickly eroding. We can’t give up. We can’t let evil win; every time we protest, every time we create, every time we speak up, we are holding on to that most precious fire that lets us keep going.

The moment we give up on hope we stop fighting for the world that could be, and give in to the one that is.

With that in mind, here are some of my words accompanied by illustrations I made for it. If you know the language of flowers you may understand why particular ones were chosen. We go through the darkness because we believe that there’s a light at the end… so let’s hold on to that.

I credit my parents for the obsession with mythology and the fantastic that I’ve had since I was a very young child; it’s hard to remain rooted in one place when one’s name launches the imagination into hyper-drive. My childhood was spent in my grandfather’s library, playing in the garden and watching Vincent Price’s Classics of Terror with my grandmother. I’m a neurodiverse artist, so trying to understand the world has been my ongoing inspiration and purpose.

I started to write as soon as I could read, and my first large-scale illustration was created at the age of five. My grandmother had left me to my own devices for a couple of hours, only to come back into the room and find that I had drawn a Martian invasion of Earth on three of the walls.  To her credit -and my artistic growth-  she didn’t get angry;  she commended me for my creativity and handed me a piece of paper instead. She left those murals up for the next fifteen years. As a teenager,  I discovered Bradbury, Asimov, Madeleine L’Engle, and Tolkien. The more I read the more I wanted to read, and I haven’t stopped since!  My art has always gone hand in hand with my writing, and I love to bring my worlds to life through both.

Here you’ll find some of my worlds. Hope you enjoy them. My writing site can be found at www.apisteicher.com