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After the Rain
Emily Salisbury is a graduate of the University of Portland. Salisbury painted the cover for the chapbook, Come What May, published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. One of Salisbury’s digital art paintings was published in Beyond Words Literary Magazine in 2021. This piece, After the Rain, will be her first published work of photography. Salisbury continues to explore various art mediums.