Contributor - Nikaela Peters

"The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic and ongoing impulse of my life."
-Jhumpa Lahiri

Nikaela Peters forms sentences in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work focuses on themes of season, religion, history and ceremony. While she and her husband are prolific with their Pentax k1000, she is confident that words, properly organized, better stir the imagination than images captured on film. The cliche is backwards. A good sentence is worth a thousand pictures any day.

For Vol.4, Nikaela collaborated with Tec and Chelsea Petaja on a piece about lakes called “Familiar Shores”. Nikaela recently contributed an essay titled "Eating Reverently" in Vol. 6. For more of Nikaela’s work, hop on over to her blog, Rose & Crown.

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01. Nikaela Peters

10 Comments

Comments

[Megan]

Thank you for featuring Nikaela and her work. Our world is better for it.

[Abbey]

So happy to see a fellow Manitoban featured here. Nikaela writes such true words.

[nadia]

beautiful.

[Melanie]

I just clicked over and read the most recent blog post on Rose & Crown and fell in love with it. Thank you so much for introducing me to Nikaela's work.

[Elias M.]

Thank you for the introduction to Rose & Crown blog, it is quite possibly the most beautiful blog I have come across.

[mollika]

no one quite says it like jhumpa lahiri; thank you for featuring her quote. as a bengali woman, i look up to her and thank her for blazing a trail in the literary arts world.

[Mattie Babb]

Loved reading her piece in Kinfolk. Thanks for sharing!

xo. Mattie
Baton Rouge, LA

[Sierra]

Love to see a fellow Winnipeger on Kinfolk!

[india flint]

the notion of someone carefully forming sentences
their hands lightly dusted with snow
so the words won't stick
is
delightful

[Anna]

Delighted to see one of my favorites here!