San Pedro sunrise (July 2021) © Alexis Rhone Fancher

Spring fruit (3 April 2022) © Alexis Rhone Fancher

San Pedro sunset (5 October 2021) © Alexis Rhone Fancher

Fireworks at the Port of Los Angeles (4 July 2022) © Alexis Rhone Fancher

Fireworks seen from the artist’s terrace (4 July 2022) © Alexis Rhone Fancher

Self-Portrait with Orchids (February 2022) © Alexis Rhone Fancher

—Photographs above are copyrighted © by the artist. All rights reserved. Images are reproduced here with her permission.

Alexis Rhone Fancher’s

writing is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, Plume, Tinderbox, Cleaver, Diode, The American Journal of Poetry, Spillway, Nashville Review, Poetry East, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. She has authored seven poetry collections, most recently Junkie Wife (Moon Tide Press, 2018), The Dead Kid Poems (2019), EROTIC: New & Selected (NYQ Books, 2021), and Stiletto Killer (in Italian) from Edizioni Ensemble, Italia (May 2022).

In the works and forthcoming: BRAZEN, Alexis’s next, full-length erotic book (also to be published by NYQ Books); and DUETS, an illustrated, ekphrastic chapbook collaboration with poet Cynthia Atkins (to be published by Harbor Editions).

Alexis’s photographs are featured worldwide, including the covers of Witness, Spillway, and The Pedestal Magazine, among others. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Daily.

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More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

Selected works by Ms. Rhone Fancher in KYSO Flash:

⚡ Un-Still Life-2, photograph and haiku in Issue 5 (Spring 2016)

⚡ For the Russian Waitress at the Yorkshire Grill Who Reads Akhmatova on Her Break, microfiction and photograph in Issue 11 (Spring 2019)

⚡ The Animal Inside, photograph by Rhone Fancher with ekphrastic poem by Ellaraine Lockie in Issue 10 (Fall 2018)

⚡ Because He Used to Love Her: A Story in Photographs and Senryu by Rhone Fancher in Issue 5 (Spring 2016)