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Issue Illustrator | Josephine Florens

Each issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly features an Issue Illustrator, an artist whose work was chosen to pair with and complement the poetry of the quarter.  Issue #72's artist is Josephine Florens.

Josephine Florens is a Ukrainian artist based in Germany. Her paintings explore identity, memory, and resilience through expressive color and symbolic form. Exhibited internationally, her works have appeared in journals and collections across Europe and North America.

You can find Josephine Florens' art on the following pages of UtSQ:


​​Oliver Brooks | Tiresias on a Smoke Break

Nicole Dufalla | night shift lullaby


Anya Kirshbaum | I tell her

Meia Geddes | A Brief Song

Angie Macri | The Thorns on the Hill Gave the Hill Its Name

Angelique Zobitz | Mother of What's Left

Aditi Bhattacharjee | Five Year Plan

Alex Turissini | The Oak Tree and the Wind

Pamela Manché Pearce
 | Aubade

Kelli Dianne Rule | The tomatoes had gone

Natalie Zhang | Ornithology
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Emma Bolden | Contemporary History
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