Samara Rafert

@rafertess.bsky.social

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University press publicist (Mad Creek Books), pottery class enthusiast. Columbus, Ohio.

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An adorable brown and black tabby cat blinking in the sunlight as she contemplates a windy afternoon from atop a bookshelf under the window. A copy of the Centennial edition of "The House of the Seven Gables" lies at her paws.
A photo of the OSU Press booth at the AWP conference, showing an array of colorful covers against a Mad Creek Books banner, and a handwritten “50% off” sign.
Poet Austin Araujo looking down and smiling as he signs his new book at the OSU Press AWP booth.
A box clumsily wrapped in white Christmas wrapping paper with gold fir trees on it.
A petite brown and black tabby cat seated on top of an armchair, looking quizzically at the camera, with an oil painting and a shelf of haphazard books behind her.
A screenshot of the cover image for an auto-generated iPhone “Memories” slideshow called “Pet Friends,” featuring a black cat standing over the dead rat or large mouse she brought onto a rug. The back of the rodent’s neck is bitten out. The flash is making her eyes glow alien yellow.
A ca. late 19th or early 20th century formal photograph of a young white woman with a broad face, high cheekbones, and shallow-set eyes, with a slight smile. She is wearing a black, high-necked free and her hair js piled in soft curls on top of her head. Caption: “Mary Ann (Mamie) Nelson as a young woman.”
The book The Name of This Band is R.E.M., by Peter Carlin, atop an airplane tray table
A small tabby cat under a light pink blanket on the bottom bunk of a wooden doll bunk bed with the American Girl Doll Kirsten on the top bunk.
A bunch of crushed buckeyes on a paved street
A brown and gray tabby cat lying with her head inside a red-and-cream Calico Critters house, so that her face is perfectly framed by the front door and her body is sticking out behind the house.
A close-up photo of a brown and gray tabby cat hunched among a cluster of catnip plants in a raised garden bed.
A screenshot of the New York Times’ Spelling Bee game, stating that the word “agonal” is not on its word list