Trauma and the Body, Issue 1

An annual art and literary journal that explores how trauma manifests, transforms, and is held inside us.

69 pages of visual art, poetry, and short-form prose that ask you to acknowledge and reflect.

What This Issue Invites

• Trauma shows up in many forms: bold, quiet, surreal, humorous, ancestral.

• The works in this issue don’t offer easy resolutions. They ask you to sit with discomfort, tenderness, rupture, and resilience.

Inside the Journal

• 60+ curated artworks & literary pieces

• Therapist-guided reflections and grounding activities

• Full-color, perfect-bound print

• 8.5×11 in., 69 pages

A beautifully made journal meant to be held, revisited, and lived with.

Why We Created It

Because art carries what language alone cannot. Tendrils bridges the inner and the collective and is an invitation to witness, acknowledge, and feel.

Featuring work by:

• Leah King

• Bruce Morrow

• Naila Francis

• Shelby Hubbard

• M. Lopes da Silva

• Megan Mosholder & David Clifton-Strawn

• Sasha Kelly Jackson

• Juanita Cox

• Bolu Adeniran

• thái lu

• nat raum

• Annika Klein

• Amanda Quaid

• Marie McCarty

• Leslie Holt

• Sandra Kluge

• Nia “Newt” Pipkin-Glover

• Ira Joel Haber 

• Jan Freeman

• Lisa Wilde 

• Rama AlFarkh

• Carol D Guerrero-Murphy

• Joanna Hoge

• Kristy Snedden

• Erick Alejandro Hernández

• izzy bulling

• Livia Garofalo

• S Maxfield

• Sarah Bachinger

• Teresa Camozzi

• Estelle Lewis

• Federico Muelas 

• Chanika Svetvilas

• Victoria Barnes

• Sheldon Wong

• Theda Sandiford

• Pauline Chu 

• Bo (Boram) Kim

• Peppa

• Sam Grabowska

• Hazel Yan

• Diana Raab

• Aiyana Sha’niel

• Olivia Laura

• Sarah E. Brook

• Richard LeBlond

• Shelby Fleming

• Regina Berg 

• Daun Daemon

• Maudie Bryant

• Heather Beardsley & Alexandra Carter

• Angie Meche Kilcullen

• Dana Donaty

• Neha Misra

• ocean

• Jacqueline Yvonne Tull

• Oriada Dajko

• Nakemiah “Kiki” Williams

• Annette Gagliardi

• Alex Younger

• Elijah Angelo Chavez