Jane Alynn is a poet and photographer. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. A chapbook of poems, Thread's & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, and in 2004 she was awarded a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. As a photographer, Alynn has numerous exhibitions and awards to her credit.

“My photographs have always been about observation, perception, and discovery of what isn’t immediately apparent. I want my work to transcend the documentary nature of the medium so that the images evoke a sense of mystery, stimulating the viewer to look closely, and then to look again.

Over a decade ago I started making zone plate images, a type of lensless photography that creates a “glow” in the highlights and blurs the edges, infusing the forms with a glint of the numinous. I love the elusive and haunting quality of these images and the dark beauty they convey visually.

With a zone plate, every image is an experiment. Since much of the process is unpredictable, and my attention is on the feeling of experience not content, I am usually amazed at the shapes and forms that have appeared in the print.”