“Hooray for Blooming Spring”:
An Illustrated Poem

By Anastasya Shepherd

Anastasya Shepherd worked as a neuropsychologist for ten years in diagnostic testing, consulting, therapy, rehabilitation planning and teaching. After marrying and having children, she turned her focus to illustration: “I had been drawing and dabbling in photography throughout the years, but at that point I started writing and illustrating for my children, and suddenly realized that I had something to say. I also realized that it was a natural way of making a living by means of asking questions—which seems to me to be the purpose of art.”