Breiðamerkursandur, Iceland : 2025

E. G. Ware is a writer and mixed-media artist whose work traces the seams between memory, craft, and myth. She studied theater arts with a focus on costume and stage design, she has long been drawn to the tactile and the storied.She has worked in the historic development sector of St. Louis for many years, helping restore and reimagine the city’s older buildings. She lives in one herself---a 1923 confectionery and boarding house now turned family home; where she writes among the echoes of its past. There she shares a townhouse with her three children, a black cat named Yennefer, and a basset hound called Birdie. The downstairs studio is being remade into a small flat for her mother, completing a multigenerational experiment in creative chaos.Ware’s creative life spans writing, costuming, and visual arts: she has designed garments and masks, sewn historical reproductions, and built wall pieces from found natural materials. Her stories and poems move through similar textures---fantasy, gothic romanticism, and classic literature---exploring how people find meaning in ruin and beauty in the undoing.Her favorite books include Dracula and The Castle of Otranto, though she holds a soft spot for cozy fantasy. She draws inspiration from artists Francis Bacon and Max Beckmann, and from costume designers Eiko Ishioka and Kate Hawley. When not writing, she can often be found reading in bed, wandering St. Louis’s old neighborhoods, or sewing something slightly impractical but full of whimsy and heart.Her poetry is inspired by the mysticism of Christina Rossetti and the clarity of Louise Glück, blending romanticism and restraint. Across mediums, Ware’s work seeks the same quiet truth: that art, like history, is an act of reflection.