Josie Rozell is an analog collagist and poet living and creating in Berlin, by way of Hawai’i and New Zealand. Working primarily with antique newsprint, vintage magazines and nature books, Josie combines her love of paper composition and storytelling to create surreal and unexpected images. Paper ephemera cut from both retro and futuristic sources are recontextualized into energetic scenes that explore the relationship between humans and nature.

 

With a scholastic background in English Literature and Education, Josie brings a strong sense of narration and accessibility to her collages, guiding her viewer in a quest to embrace the unexpected. To further explore the interconnectedness of humanity and nature, her collages are typically accompanied by poems. Her first book, Articulated Soul (2021), tells the story of living in Kansas, Austria, Indonesia, New Zealand and Hawai’i through verse and collage. It was selected as a Blurb best seller and was featured on the set of High School Musical the Series on Disney+. Her next collection, Deep Breath, is composed of American sonnets and collages and will be published April 21st, 2023 by Ambitious Stories LLC.

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Currently she is studying for a master's degree in North American Literature and Culture at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. Her focus is on ecocriticism and specifically on representations of Antarctica in North American literature. She is also the managing editor of The Hawai'i Review of Books and regularly publishes her poetry and art.