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GRETA KOSHENINA is a cyanotypist, documentarian, poet, and curator from Water Valley, Mississippi. She earned her MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi in 2023, and is now pursuing her MFA in Southern Studies Documentary Expression. Koshenina combines archival family photos with contemporary photographs and mythic iconography to create surrealistic photographic collages. She bores into the mythology of self and society, creating a timeless tale depicted with cyanotypes and poetry. Interested in the intersection of Spirit and the subconscious, her cyanotypes represent womanhood, biophilia, and belonging. Koshenina’s work is an excavation and curation of the compost heap of the stories, iconography, plants, and beliefs that shaped her.