Alexis Leigh Ragan is a deep-image poet fascinated by epiphanic shifts, or as she delights to think of it, a literary vessel for Christ’s light to dwell, convinced that the creative arts serve as a powerful window of worship that leads humanity back to the beauty of God’s heart. She created the literary journal,Vessels of Light, to live as a virtual lighthouse holding literary vessels that shine. She was chosen as a Harriet Williams Emerging Writer for 2026 and received the Mary Purcell Beach Scholarship for the best written essay in 17th-18th century studies. Alexis has been published in places such as Rip-Rap, Ekstasis ( now Inkwell), Calla Press, Alabaster Co, Heart of Flesh, BipolarPoetry, The Way Back To Ourselves, and Christianity Today. This Summer 2026, she looks forward to serving as a GLEN FELLOW at Image Journal’s writing retreat. Alexis gratefully holds an MFA in poetry at California State University Long Beach.