Ilene Dube

Ilene Dube is a writer, artist and filmmaker. Her short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in Atticus Review, The Grief Diaries, Kelsey Review, U.S. 1 Summer Fiction, Huffington Post and others, and is forthcoming in The Oddville Press.

Empathy

My childhood was spent in my mother’s studio, watching her adhere little objects to shapes formed in clay. She took me on guided tours through art books, from the sculpture of Louise Nevelson, with whom she’d gone to art school, to Georgia O’Keeffe, into whose paintings I’d drift.

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