Spark Artist

Stephanie Adams-Santos is a multidisciplinary artist working in poetry, screenwriting, and illustration. Their work drifts through the green, shadowed corridors of memory, myth, and dream, shaped by 80s dark fantasy, ghost stories, and a childhood spent between Oregon and Guatemala. They are the author of Dream of Xibalba (winner of the Orison Poetry Prize, selected by Jericho Brown, and finalist for a 2024 Lambda Literary Award) and Swarm Queen’s Crown, and co-editor of Passport of Witness, an artist book anthology and mutual aid project supporting families and aid organizations in Gaza. They have written for film, radio, and television, including Nocturno, a Latinx horror podcast hosted by Danny Trejo, and are currently developing Ojo de la Selva—an animist tarot deck attuned to ancestral and ecological memory. On faculty at Willamette University/PNCA’s low-residency Creative Writing program, Stephanie cultivates creative spaces rooted in dreamwork, spirit, and care—that is, the tireless, luminous work of freeing the imagination from oppression, both within ourselves and in the world.

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