About

I’m a poet, diviner, and mixed-media artist in Washington, D.C.

Learn about how you can visit my studio or work with me in a divination session.

I was born in Norfolk and raised in Denver, La Serena, San Jose, Tabubil, Mexico City, Guangzhou and Maine. I’m a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where I earned an M.F.A. in interdisciplinary writing, and George Washington University, where I studied Chinese and East Asian studies.

I worked in public policy for five years after graduation, then moved to California for a decade, where I finally said yes to my capacious creative and professional interests. I’ve been back in D.C. since 2014 and have deep ties to the area.

I’ve been reading cards since I was a teenager and study with Selah Saterstrom of Four Queens Divination. I use a Rider-Waite-Smith deck and read the cards in inclusive, non-binary ways. I believe divination is a collaborative tool for empowering individuals and institutions.

My creative practice is iterative, and includes literary art, mixed-media works on paper, and small sculptures and weavings made with locally-foraged plant fibers. Grounded in language, my work that offers time and space for ambiguity, bewilderment, discomfort, honesty, wonder and reckoning.

Looking for my artist CV? Find it here.

When you’re ready to connect, contact me at lorraine@klgstudio.com.