After many years of working in a corporate marketing department as a writer, editor and creative coordinator Angie Yingst became a stay-at-home mother with her first daughter Beatrice. After her second daughter Lucia Paz was stillborn at 38 weeks in 2008, she began exploring her grief through writing, poetry, painting, craft and art. Since Lucy's death, Angie has maintained a blog called still life with circles, dealing primarily with mothering and grief. In 2010, still life with circles was chosen as one of the top 50 Must-Read Mom Blogs by Parenting Magazine and Blogher. Angie is also a regular contributor for the website Glow In The Woods.

Angie is also the founder, the editor and a frequent contributor to still life 365, which is an art refuge, project and safe creative space for grieving parents and family members to explore the different aspects of life after loss through art. In 2010, still life 365 published a piece of art, music or poetry every day of the year. "Sharing my art and creations with other babylost mamas, and conversely seeing their art, helped to explore the different elements of my grief and journey. I gave my grief another language, the language of brokenheartedness and love," says Angie. still life 365 publishes Monday through Thursday and partakes in interviews with grieving artists and poets, conducts community-wide art projects, and is in the process of publishing a hard-bound book of work by grieving parents.

Angie's essay, "Mothering Grief", appears in a collection of essays about stillbirth called They Were Still Born, published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2010. Her poetry and writing has been published in several on-line and print magazines including Mothering Magazine, Literary Mama, Exhale and the now defunct In The Rearview. When Angie is not writing, she paints and illustrates mizuko jizo and other subjects dealing with babyloss, pregnancy and parenting at her Etsy shop the Kenna Twins. Angie currently resides outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her husband, children Beatrice and her third child Thomas Harry, and Jack the dog.

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