Unveiling Hidden Realities: Anna Badkhen’s To See Beyond Challenges Perception and Truth
Badkhen’s language rewards attention. She gifts us prose that does exactly what it needs to do—supple, precise, at times quietly dazzling. On these many levels, To See Beyond rewards not only careful reading, but multiple readings. “All of us are here because, over millennia of acts of God and wars and disease, our ancestors trusted the hours,” Badkhen reminds us. “In a way, all of us—you and me, too, reader—are souvenirs, carried into the world by the hopes of survivors.”
Meet the Contributor
Renée K. Nicholson is a writer, scholar, and narrative medicine leader whose work spans poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and academic articles. She is the author of six books, including Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness, Postscripts, and Feverdream. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2027. Her writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Bellevue Literary Review, AWP Writer’s Chronicle, and Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, where she is a contributing writer. She currently serves as series editor for the Connective Tissue imprint at WVU Press and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
