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Meinrad Craighead (–) was an artist, writer, and visionary.

Her work explores feminine faces of the divine, mystical experiences, and the sacredness of the natural world.^[1]

Early life and education

Meinrad Craighead was born Charlene Marie Craighead ^[2] on February 12, , in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

The daughter of Marie Catherine Engster and Charles O'Connor Craighead Jr., she was the eldest of three girls in a Catholic family. Craighead's family moved to Houston, Texas a few years after her birth.^[3] She "led a deeply intuitive life from an early age"^[3] and in the s she began drawing with the charcoal sticks which her father had given her.

Craighead experienced her first "real religious experience" at