Be Ourselves by Catherine McGuire

Art Technique: mixed media collage, mostly using gel-printed paper

ALT Text for Quote: “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” -May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude


Catherine McGuire (she/her) is a retired art therapist, writer, and artist with a deep concern for our planet’s future. She spent ten years as a therapist in secure facilities, until disabled by chronic illness. She has five decades of published poetry, six poetry chapbooks, a full-length poetry book, Elegy for the 21st Century, a SF novel, Lifeline, and a book of short stories, The Dream Hunt and Other Tales.

Website: www.cathymcguire.com