Samantha Renee Ratcliffe
Literary Artist
2025 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Frankfort) $1,500 to complete Common Wealth, a multimodal collection of poetry and prose that uses printmaking and lyrical writing to examine concepts of belonging in the south. This work examines what we share and what we fight to protect. Rooted in trans and LGBTQIA+ lives in Appalachia, the collection confronts daily survival within social climates and landscapes altered by extraction and environmental change.