Lacey Schauwecker teaches language and literature courses at Indiana University. She has published journal articles on witnessing environmental and human rights crises in Literary Geographies and Genocide Studies and Prevention. Currently, she lives in Phoenix,...
I moved back to the college town of Claremont ten years ago to care for my aging parents; the moister climate of the Santa Cruz mountain redwood forests, my adult home, is far more pleasurable to me, and I hope to return there eventually, but there is much to love...
April Tierney is the author of two full length collections of poetry, Singing to the Bones (2018) and Origin Stories (2020), and is the cofounder of Fire Feeders, a collaborative press and women's writing collective along the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains....
Peter Pierson’s writing has been featured in Zen Peacemakers’ Journal, Minnesota Monthly, 5enses, Voices for the Land (Minnesota State Historical Society Press), among other publications. His radio essay work with KAXE/KBXE-Northern Community Radio was recognized with...
ROSEANN HANSON is a naturalist and explorer who has been keeping nature journals for more than 35 years. She studied journalism and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, and has worked in the American Southwest, Mexico, and East Africa as a...
I am Cathy Rose and I live in St Paul Minnesota. And one place I love to walk is the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge weekly. This is where the inspiration for this piece came from. Photo credit: Catherine Rose I slept well last night. I am always grateful...
I live in Bloomington, Indiana, an area with many trees and rolling hills, dominated by karst topography. I am a professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University with particular interests in environmental ethics, and science and religion. I am also an amateur...
Peter Pierson’s writing has been featured in Zen Peacemakers’ Journal, Minnesota Monthly, 5enses, Voices for the Land (Minnesota State Historical Society Press), among other publications. His radio essay work with KAXE/KBXE-Northern Community Radio was recognized with...
Deirdre Dempsey-Rush worked as an editor and lexicographer in book publishing for many years before becoming a copywriter. She is now associate creative director at an ad agency on Madison Avenue. She has lived in New York City, on the island of Manhattan, since the...
Richard J. Nevle is a teacher and environmental scientist with roots on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Earth Systems Program at Stanford University, and received the university’s highest teaching honor in 2018. Nevle has...
Janet Ross has been practicing social distancing since 1977 at her rural retreat in Utah’s redrock country. Lifelong westerner and aspiring author of two books, Janet Ross tells stories about the land and people of the West. Ross is writing Quilting Life and Landscape...
I am recently retired from community mental health nursing and an aspiring amateur naturalist, and a co-founder of Prescott Peacebuilders. My husband and I have been living in Prescott AZ the last twenty years. Having had children, I can't subscribe to the...
Deirdre Dempsey-Rush worked as an editor and lexicographer in book publishing for many years before becoming a copywriter. She is now associate creative director at an ad agency on Madison Avenue. She has lived in New York City, on the island of Manhattan, since the...
Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., is Teaching Professor and Co-Director of Environmental Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of books including Peace Ecology (2015), and publishes widely on themes including social and environmental justice, nonviolence,...
A native of eastern Oregon, Carol has lived in Prescott for 35 years. She leads a life of leisure, having retired several years ago from managing the Yavapai College Art Gallery and teaching occasional classes in the college's art department. The joy of exploring the...
Michael Jenkins lives in Midtown of Tallahassee, Florida in the Tallahassee Red Hills Ecoregion. He is a field ecologist and focuses work on targeted habitat management around rare species, mapping, and grant administration for rare species conservation in Florida....
Deirdre Mendoza is a Los Angeles-based journalist, screenwriter, and fiction writer. Her non-fiction has been published in Ms. Magazine, Miami New Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Her short story collection, Real Lives of Married People will be published by Eightfold...
Martha Bray lives with her husband John Day and an old hound named Daisy on the outskirts of Sedro-Woolley in Skagit County Washington. She had the great privilege of working for Skagit Land Trust for twenty years protecting local land for wildlife and open space. She...
John lives with his partner Judith and their two dogs, Chloe and Mollie, at Upper Sturt in South Australia. He is 74 years of age, has 2 children and 5 grandchildren. Central to John's life is the daily challenge of harmonizing a love and care of the natural world...
Edie is a sculptor, painter, writer, and mother whose work seeks to honor the beauty and mystery of the world. She has also worked as an educator, environmental advocate, and National Park ranger. Edie divides her time between Prescott, in Arizona’s Mogollon...