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, The Way Back To Ourselves, and Christianity Today. She is currently completing an MFA in poetry at California State University Long Beach.