Lisa Beech Hartz is the author of the ekphrastic collection, The Goldfish Window (Grayson Books, 2018) and These Kismets (CutBank Books, 2025) a chapbook exploring the life and work of artist Lee Krasner. “Into Ivory” is taken from a working manuscript responding to the life and work of photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981). Lisa directs the non-profit Seven Cities Writers Project which brings cost-free writing workshops to underserved communities. She guides poetry workshops in two city jails. Erasure and ekphrastic poems are among her writers’ favorite ways to create new work.