Megan Klco Kellner is a Michigan-based painter, poet, and educator. She is a Visiting Professor of Art at Grand Valley State University where she works at cultivating equitable learning environments that grow her students’ creativity. In her own creative work, Megan explores what it means to live consciously through images of her home and family. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally, and her first poetry chapbook won the 2019 Michigan Writers Cooperative press prize. Megan makes paintings that are an expression of both awe and vulnerability. She imagines a world in which we make conscious time for quiet and in which we meet one another’s vulnerability with mutuality and care.