Baylie Vike is a writer, musician, and painter based in Dallas, Texas. She currently makes her living as a legal assistant, but broke into music business in 2023 before making a pivot toward visual art in early 2024. She is now focusing on her writing, inspired by the bittersweetness of life and as Albert Camus put it, “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd”.
Baylie’s passion for writing began when she taught herself to read in preschool. Her earliest work includes “Pigs in a Car,” “The Robot Who Did My Chores,” and a selection of untitled poems, all of which are currently on display in a box in a storage unit somewhere in northeast Texas. She now writes prose and free verse poetry that explores philosophy, world events, and travel often through a metaphoric lens.
Baylie is also an emerging abstract painter inspired by the color red and the themes of her writing, messages of desperation and power and love, a mixed bag of life that all humans receive, with each item often falling disproportionate to the other. The book “Demian” by Hermann Hesse speaks to her deeply, and she enjoys paying homage to its philosophies in each work she creates.
