For the past ten years, Kalie Boyne has used art and storytelling to reflect on the social messages we have unconsciously absorbed, restore an inherent recognition of others, and unearth a faith that fully embodying our deep selves is possible. 

While studying media misrepresentation and the role of art in challenging one-dimensional stereotypes at Brown University, Kalie Boyne completed Talking To Strangers, a collection of one hundred portraits alongside transcribed conversations with each individual. These portraits and stories were completed between 2014 and 2016 and displayed in Providence’s City Hall for a year.

In 2017 and 2018, she worked with eighteen different women and non-binary femmes to discern and visually describe their most intense emotional states, creating a space to honor the complex experiences of personhood that women and femmes are encouraged to either express in specific, restrictive ways or repress completely.

She is currently working on Paradise, a five-part graphic novel series that began in 2018, with excerpts forthcoming in The Offing, Black Warrior Review, The B’K Quarterly, orangepeel mag, and Salt Hill. The first volume, My World Belongs To Me, was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign and is available here. She is documenting the process of Volume Two on Youtube and Patreon.

She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with her partner Javier Sandoval.