Shapeshifter: The Art of Family Tragedy and How to Be Amazing Anyway is an interactive memoir that explores inherited grief, recovery, art, and death. The book highlights how inherited grief stemming from the traumatic childhood death of the author's aunt Susan cast a shadow over generations. Putney Koenig tells her story in flash essays interspersed with haunting and inspiring images, and explores the impact of Susan's accident on her own childhood and how its echoes influenced her approach as an artist and death care worker. In this illustrated talk, join the artist as she collects her mother's bones after cremation and opens Susan's coffin 50 years after her death.