BG Petty · Poetry, Paper & Books

The Artist Behind the Work

The truth of my work, academic, creative, and beyond, is that everything I create is rooted in the most human form of communication: story.

Words, ongoing

You Pick the Story

Three half-finished novels, one collective decision: readers vote on which story gets written next, chapter by chapter.

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The book
Cynically Optimistic: poems for the hapless hopeful by BG Petty, front cover showing a cracked glass half full of water

Cynically Optimistic

poems for the hapless hopeful · Aspen & Olive

Equal parts a spiral into existential dread and a hopeful look at the beauty and joy that life holds, this book of poetry will make you laugh, cry, or wonder why the author is delusional enough to think she can write.

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Paper art

Get Lost in a Book

Open the pages to another world in The Secret Garden Series, an art collection that takes you into the story like never before.

The Secret Garden book diorama, layered paper scene of children in a walled garden with a fox, framed by climbing roses and cut foliage
Diorama in a book

The Secret Garden

Anne of Green Gables book diorama, paper Anne waving toward Green Gables across moss, rock, and book-text borders
Diorama in a book

Anne of Green Gables

Peter Pan book diorama, Wendy and Peter flying through a starry night on the left page, a brick nursery window with Nana the dog looking in on the right
Diorama in a book

Peter Pan

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