About the artist

Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

"Milady and Friend" is a humorous take on old oil paintings of aristocrats--by adding a kind of friend most unlikely to have been included in this historic portraiture.