Just as Elizabeth Bishop wrote of her initial self-realization that “you are an I, you are an Elizabeth,” we all come to a similar awakening, an awareness of the physical body and our own consciousness. Over the years, we may begin to question our understanding of the world and our place in it, which awakens the spirit, and we find ourselves longing to unite the physical and metaphysical. Strange Bodies takes us on a journey — using story, science, metaphor, and myth — that brings us full circle to the essence of who we are and how closely we are connected to each other and the natural world.

The poems and photographs in Still Life are a biography of existence through thought and image. This collaboration is about aesthetics and beauty and what those concepts inspire in the day-to-day.

This fine art book by Deni Naffziger and Mark Hackworth is a companion piece for the exhibition

Desire To Stay seeks to discover the connection between those we love and who we are. It asks what it means to care for those with one foot in this world and one in the next. It means loving as hard as one can and recognizing that one’s fate may be determined by how well we care for those we are meant to become.

Published by Stockport Flats Press | Out of Print

Revenants: A Story of Many Lives chronicles the history of the Hardin-Houston area in Ohio. Photographs by Mark Hackworth & Patty Mitchell; poems by Deni Naffziger and Jane Ann Fuller. Awarded an Ohio Arts Council Special Projects Grant.

Out of Print

A Story of Flying was originally written for a friend of the author whose baby was born with Down's Syndrome. The Founder/Director of Passion Works Community Studio (for artists with and without disabilities), Patty Mitchell, read it and believed it would be the ideal story upon which to base the first major exhibition out of the studio because it celebrated the love shared between two siblings -- one with and the other without disabilities. This coloring tale was produced specifically for the Passion Works Community Studio and was funded by The Ohio Arts Council. To date, 10,000 copies have been sold/distributed.