Aaditi Wadia

Aaditi (she/her) is an environmental chemistry student who loves learning about the Earth and exploring the small joys of life.

Al Salwen

Al Salwen (he/they) is a trans poet interested in alternative temporalities and utopias. Hopefully, he is at the beach right now.

Anna Cecilia Fierro

Anna Cecilia is a Chicana creative from SoCal! An admirer of all deer and ballpoint drawings. Find them on ig @annacecf.

Anna Merrens

Anna Iallegio

anna was born by the ocean and raised in the mountains. right now they live on an island and teach ceramics at college of the atlantic.

Ben Simon

Ben Simon is an artist and graduate student studying environmental policy and justice in New York City.

Brandon Hoak*

Brandon (he/they) is a queer-, -restorative ecologist, -gardener, -archivist, artist, activist, -designer, & -Earthling!

Brandon Stammen

Based in Brooklyn, Brandon’s interests are rooted in design, ecology, and olfaction, particularly the connective spaces within.

Camilla Ledezma

Camilla is a creature of the temperate forest and its waterways. She loves to read and write and sing.

Cayce Morrison

Cayce has always loved the outdoors and enjoys trying to put that world into words – often through poetry.

Chloe Solomon Shiffman

chloe shiffman is somewhere in new york city, making friends in long lines. find her on substack at @chloeshiffman!

Christopher Griffin

Christopher Griffin is a Brooklyn-based plant enthusiast, author, educator, and storyteller cultivating joy, care, and community.

Pronouns: they/she/he
Instagram: @plantkween
Website: plantkween.com

Clea Gunn

Clea Gunn is an artist, writer, cook, future teacher, etc. currently living in Frederick, Maryland. They are inspired by the world around them and spend most of their time outside, with their dog, exploring rivers and mountains.

Erika Asami Kane

Erika Asami Kane is a design educator exploring gentle-impact, repair-focused design and art practices.

Grant Peterson

Grant is a swamp romanticizing, song binding, yearning heart from Mississippi.

Hazel Fawn

Kat Moore

Kiki Serna

Kim Hoff

Kim Hoff (she/her) explores nature and human experience through poetry and experimental forms. She and her wife live in western Massachusetts.

Madison Tom

Madison (they/them) is an illustrator based in New Haven, CT. You can find them by the ocean.

Marina McGonigle

Meryl Braconnier

Meryl Braconnier (she/her) is a writer, comedian, farmer, and conversationist based out of New Haven, CT.

Mia Ambroiggio*

Mia has a coastal heart with Midwestern roots. She is a writer and practitioner dedicated to queer ecology and coastal resilience. She loves to love and slurp.

Mia Brown-Seguin

Mia Brown-Seguin is a papermaker and sculptor, interested in cyclical forms and possibilities of fiber.

Mia Forgione

Mia Forgione is a scientist and artist. She loves to write in her journal, look at plants, and dance until her feet hurt.

Nhi Dao

Nhi (they/he) believes queerness to be a wonderfully inherent part of the world, and they love exploring that through their writing.

Noa Shapiro-Tamir

Noa’s teachers include boatbuilders, storytellers, deer in the backyard, children, eccentric men, accomplished women, dancing theys, and her cool parents.

Paul Brindamour & Steve Cronkite

We met. He lent me Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. I took him to see The Princess Bride. 38 years later, we’re a classic couple who got our start sharing a classic gay novel and a classic movie.

Rowen Julian

rowen (they/he/she) loves chilling outside on swinglike objects, being goofy with friends, and dabbling in many art forms.

Ryan Hoak

Ryan is a field-based seasonal worker in applied conservation and restoration in the Western US; he is beginning his fourth season and currently calls the Bridger-Teton National Forest his home and place of work.

Sarah Lloyd

A lover of all things briny, from capers to marshes, Sarah feels at home with her hands in the mud or cooking for the people she loves.

Sofia Spillane

Sofia is a student, reader, and writing enthusiast. They like to tell stories that, often, don’t make sense.

Stephen Stresow

Zink

Zink is a reluctant writer and multimedia artist from Chicago-ish. Instagram- @worm.gov_

Violet Aurora

Violet is a geographer and community builder living in Southern California and spends most of her free time outdoors.