Maggie Nowinski (b. Long Island, New York; lives and works in Western Massachusetts) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in drawing, printmaking, and installation. Her practice centers on the construction of imagined biological systems — hybrid plant-animal specimens rendered in obsessive, accumulative pen and ink — that occupy the threshold between scientific illustration and somatic autobiography. Nowinski's drawings emerge from a methodology she describes as "somatic absorption": a process of direct observation, botanical fieldwork, and internalized experience collapsed into a single mark-making practice. Working without underdrawings on heavyweight Fabriano and Arches paper, she builds form through sustained, uninterrupted linework — each stroke contributing to organisms that appear simultaneously discovered and invented. Her Somaflora Specimens (Partially Remembered Series), ongoing since 2019, represents the fullest expression of this language: imagined specimens in which resilience, adaptation, toxicity, and ache are rendered as visible anatomical fact. Her installation work extends these concerns into architectural space. Be Spilled, My Heart — a constellation of over 160 double-sided canvas wHoles ranging from eight inches to eight feet in diameter — transforms the gallery into what the artist has described as a cathedral of biological accumulation, drawing the viewer's gaze upward through layered, crawling forms. Her year-long Divoc Daily Drawings project (March 2020 – March 2021), comprising over 365 works on paper produced in direct response to the unfolding events of the pandemic, has been presented as a large-scale chronological installation evoking the structure of a calendar and the texture of lived time. Nowinski's work has been exhibited at the Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; the Berkshire Art Museum, North Adams, Massachusetts; and the von Auesperg Gallery, among other institutions. She is represented in public and private collections and is an active educator whose teaching practice is integral to her broader artistic mission.