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Amy Challenger
@amychallenger.bsky.social
U.S. writer and painter who fled to Switzerland. Contributor @WA Post, Next Avenue, Business insider, Institute for Science & Policy, The Information & more. Seeking new representation for dystopian novel based on a true family nightmare.
“Aging”
Acrylic on canvas with gold overlay
70x70cm
#portraitart #acrylicart #contemporaryart
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Work in progress— so enjoying this one though she’s torturing me!
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#portrait #collage #contemporaryart #zurich
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
On productivity
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All my goals are illusions,
distractions from the path
the breath, the bluest blue hills
around me
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#vss365 #goal #poetry
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Work in progress… time for sleep!
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Acrylic collage #portrait #ghost
#art #painting #spiritual
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reposted by Amy Challenger
I follow
the smell of rain
to myself
#haiku #poetry
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Amy Challenger
Octavia Butler wrote this in her journal in 1988.
It wasn’t a wish — it was a plan.
Every line a spell. Almost all of it manifested.

(Writers, read this out loud. Then write your own.) ↓
May 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A thought turns ripple
in my morning wake of tea

a bleak hue transported
into truth, an endless whirl
of not knowing

I see that we are
that which is not
this or that

yet when i repeat this,
we have passed

#vss365 #transport #poetry
#amwriting
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Reposted by Amy Challenger
#vss365

When The Engines Fall Silent

I’m the battered suitcase
swollen with pain
carried
through indifferent stations
and
airports.
It only hurts
when the
transport stops
the engines fall silent
and
my
feet
fall
s
t
i
l
l.

#transport
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Close-up view from my latest “Time Travel” portrait series, a collection of collage acrylics overlapping poetry, maps, sheet music, and natural elements. My art merges well with the recent completion of my dystopian novel weaving nature and technology with enduring love.
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#art #portrait #fiction
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#Zurich lights beside market stalls of handmade wares and warm glühwein. All I want to do is paint and write ❤️
#inspiration
December 13, 2024 at 6:45 AM