Artists
Kim Breit
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania based artist, Kim Breit, creates hand cut paper environmental sculptures. Breit uses her art as a means to address stewardship of our planet. Her work has been featured in art publications, magazines, galleries and solo shows. Her portfolio can be found at kimbreitart.com
Roger Camp
Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002. His documentary photography has been awarded the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence and published in The New England Review, Fugue and Folio.
Wes Carrington
Wes Carrington is a former diplomat who now lives in Virginia and enjoys birding, photography, and writing. His poetry has previously appeared in Aethlon, Grand Little Things and various anthologies from Philadelphia’s Moonstone Press and the Poetry Society of Virginia. His family thinks he takes too many photos.
Pimpawan Chaipanit
Pimpawan is an English Literature lecturer at Prince of Songkla University, specialising in ecocriticism and global anglophone literature. Her lifelong drawing hobby led her to illustrate and publish two children’s picturebooks. Having spent many Scottish springs gardening with robins, British birds are a major source of her inspiration.
Jacquelyn Cynkar
Jacquelyn is a former researcher investigating her environment with camera and pen in Pittsburgh, PA. She owns a photography studio and is co-founder of the non-profit Steel City Helping Hands. She is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and the Madwomen in the Attic writing group.
Kelly DuMar
Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections. Her images have been featured on the cover of Josephine Quarterly, Brooklyn Review, About Place, Synkroniciti, Cool Beans Lit, & more. Her abstract photos celebrate the habitat of her home on the Charles River and her travels beyond.
Margot McMahon
A lifelong environmentalist, internationally- awarded Margot McMahon sculpts, writes, and paints human, plant, and animal forms to say, through creating, her hope that decisions be made to support life. With degrees in Environmental Journalism and Art, and an MFA from Yale University, Margot makes environmental statements in art and writing.
Terri Saul
Terri Saul is a ᏣᎳᎩ (Cherokee) artist and writer living in California, in Huchiun (Emeryville) on Lisjan Ohlone land. Terri is a two-spirit citizen of the ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Cherokee Nation). They’re also Choctaw, and named after their grandfather the artist “Chief” Terry Saul. A selection of work is at artwithterri.com.
Robert Seibert
Robert Seibert is a lifelong Pennsylvanian and world traveler. He holds a Master's Degree in Art Education and taught elementary art for thirty-five years. Robert paints, sculpts, and photographs the beautiful and the macabre. His work has been featured in Pennsylvania Magazine and exhibited at several colleges and galleries.
Susan Solomon
Susan Solomon is a freelance paintress living in the beautiful Twin Cities area of Minneapolis/Saint Paul. Susan is always inspired by the natural world in all its beauty and brutality.
Adam Willis
Adam E. Willis is a writer, artist, and biologist from Delaware County, Ohio. Adam uses his poetry to express his displeasure with the current state of the environment. In this regard, the tones and themes of his work are often negative; however, for his sake, the creative process is therapeutic.
Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson is an author, writer, and educator. Her award-winning artwork and writing have appeared in a variety of literary magazines. Her painting, “Better Times,” graces the cover of her memoir, Greek Lessons; her painting, “When the Only Light is the Moon,” was used as cover art for her recently published novel.
Authors
Fiction
Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks received his MFA from Pacific University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southampton Review, Redivider, X-R-A-Y, BULL, Columbia Journal, EcoTheo Review, Appalachian Review, and others.
Betty J. Cotter
Betty J. Cotter is the author of the novel, Roberta's Woods (Five Star, 2008). The first chapter of her novel, Moonshine Swamp, was selected for the premiere issue of Novel Slices (2020) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College.
Kimberly Elkins
Kimberly Elkins's novel, What is Visible, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and on several Best of 2014 lists. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Chicago Tribune, and Best New American Voices, among others. She was a Finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.
Jennie Englund
Jennie Englund grew up swimming and fishing in Tahoe. She is a two-time National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, a Harvard Global Studies scholar, and Vashon Residency alum. The award-winning author of Taylor Before and After, her upcoming memoir Sap-Souled: A Personal History on Lake Tahoe, is forthcoming.
Rachel Furey
Rachel Furey is a neurodivergent writer and Associate Professor at Southern Connecticut State University. Her work has appeared in journals such as Sou’wester, Nimrod International Journal, and Baltimore Review. She’s a winner of The Briar Cliff Review’s Creative Nonfiction contest, Hunger Mountain’s Katherine Paterson Prize, and Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize.
Holly Hilliard
Holly Hilliard grew up in Hillsboro, Ohio and received her MFA in Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. She now lives and birds in Pittsburgh, PA, where she is a member of the Pittsburgh Creative Corps. She writes about birds on her Substack: hollyhilliard.substack.com.
Nonfiction
Laura Barbour
Laura Barbour has a graduate degree in Natural Resources from the University of Idaho’s McCall Outdoor Science School where she studied place-based education. She lives on a nature preserve near Picabo, Idaho, with her husband and young son.
Barbara Edelman
Barbara Edelman’s poetry collections include All the Hanging Wrenches and Dream of the Gone-From City from Carnegie Mellon University Press, and the chapbooks Exposure and A Girl in Water. Her poems and prose have appeared in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Arts & Letters, and other journals. She’s a teaching professor emerita in English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Nina Gaby
Nina Gaby is a writer, visual artist and psychiatric nurse practitioner. Gaby’s essays and articles have been published in numerous anthologies, journals and magazines. Her artwork is held in various collections, including the Smithsonian, Arizona State University and Rochester Institute of Technology. She wears a cast silver raven talon with a very sharp point–an amulet through these times. More at ninagaby.wordpress.com
John Painz
John Painz rescues animals whenever he can. He's written and directed two feature films and self-published three crime novels. He loves movies and moonlit walks on the-wait, wait, stop. Wrong bio. And his favorite band is Oingo Boingo.
Anna Snader
Anna Snader is a creative nonfiction writer from Nashville, TN. Currently she studies English literature, political science, and creative writing at Hope College. In the future, she hopes to teach writing and literature. This is her first publication.
Susan Telander
Susan Telander lives in Minnesota. She attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, working with Rajiv Mohabir and Lucy Ives as well as Lit Fest in Denver, working with Emily Rapp Black. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity Magazine and The Briar Cliff Review.
Trileigh Tucker
Trileigh Tucker, who lives in West Seattle, Washington, has published creative nonfiction in venues such as About Place, Cold Mountain Review, Panorama, Flycatcher, and the anthology Women on Nature. She is working on a book exploring paths to deeper meaning through encounters with everyday birds. trileightucker.com
Poetry
Liz Ahl
Liz Ahl is the author of the poetry collections A Case for Solace (2022) and Beating the Bounds (2017) as well as several chapbooks, including A Thirst That's Partly Mine. She is the winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize. She lives in Holderness, New Hampshire.
Michael Aspros
Michael Aspros volunteers with regional wildlife conservancies. His poetry has appeared in Raven Chronicles, Madrona Project, The Grove Review, and Bird Alliance of Oregon’s The Warbler. His poetry has been selected for public art installations along the MAX Light Rail Line in Portland, Oregon.
Faith Barrett
Faith Barrett is an associate professor of English at Duquesne University. She has published a scholarly book focused on American Civil War poetry and has coedited a Civil War poetry anthology. Her current poetry manuscript in progress uses the discourse of ornithology as a means of responding to global climate change.
Grace Bauer
Grace Bauer has published six books of poems—most recently, Unholy Heart: New & Selected Poems. She also co-edited the anthology, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology Of Subversive Verse. Her poems, essays, stories, and reviews have been widely published in journals and anthologies.
Anne Bergeron
Anne Bergeron’s writing appears in The Hopper, Flyway, About Place, Blueline Magazine, Eastern Iowa Review, and Calendula Review, among others. A Barry Lopez Creative Non-Fiction solo finalist, a Dark Matter: Women Witnessing contributing writer, and editor for the anthology Dreams Before Extinction, Anne lives and teaches in Vermont. annebergeronvt.com
Tara Bray
Tara Bray is the author of Small Mothers of Fright (LSU Press, 2015) and Mistaken For Song (Persea Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Narrative Magazine, The Southern Review, Shenandoah and New England Review among others. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Barbara Brooks
Barbara Brooks, the author of the chapbooks The Catbird Sang, A Shell to Return to the Sea, and Water Colors, is a retired physical therapist. Her work has appeared in Knee Brace Press, Remington Review, Silkworm among others. She lives in Hillsborough, NC with her dog.
Corbett Buchly
Corbett Buchly’s poems have appeared in more than 30 different journals, including, Rio Grande Review, Plainsongs, Black Manifold, North Dakota Quarterly, SLAB, and Barrow Street. He is an alumnus of Texas Christian University and the professional writing program at the University of Southern California. You can find him online at Buchly.com.
Soledad Caballero
M. Soledad Caballero is a Macondo, CantoMundo, and StoryKnife fellow. Her debut collection, I Was a Bell, won the Benjamin Saltman poetry prize; Flight Plan, also with Red Hen Press, was published in September 2025. She teaches at Allegheny College and splits her time between Meadville and Pittsburgh.
Richard Collins
Richard Collins grew up in California and has lived in a number of countries, including Romania, Bulgaria, and the UK. His books include No Fear Zen (Hohm Press), In Search of the Hermaphrodite (Tough Poets Press, 2024), and the forthcoming Stone Nest: Poems (Shanti Arts). He directs Stone Nest Zen in Sewanee, Tennessee.
John Delaney
John Delaney’s publications include Waypoints (2017), a collection of place poems, Twenty Questions (2019), a chapbook, Delicate Arch (2022), poems and photographs of national parks and monuments, Galápagos (2023), a collaborative chapbook of his son Andrew’s photographs and his poems, Nile (2024), poems and photographs about Egypt, and Filing Order: Sonnets (2025). He lives in Port Townsend, WA.
Tyler Dunston
Tyler Dunston is a writer, visual artist, and PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Michigan. He holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. His work can be found in Hawaiʻi Pacific Review, Narrative, Nimrod, Raleigh Review, and elsewhere.
Deron Eckert
Deron Eckert is a poet and writer who lives in Lexington, Kentucky. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Blue Mountain Review, Rattle, Stanchion, Beaver Magazine, Thin Air Magazine, The Fourth River, and elsewhere. He can be found on Instagram at @deroneckert.
Nathan Fako
Nathan Fako (he/they) is a former high school teacher. He's currently an MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University and the Managing Editor for Mid-American Review. His work is published or forthcoming in The Rumpus, West Trade Review, HAD, Moist, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere.
Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke's poetry collections have won book prizes from Ohio State, Michigan State, Arkansas, Jacar, and Stephen F. Austin. His newest collection is The Necessary Going On: Selected Poems 1980-2025 (Press 53, 2025).
Flossie Hedges
Flossie Hedges is a writer, visual artist, and teacher living in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. She holds MAs from University of Louisville and University of Pittsburgh, and she works at a small college that serves the Appalachian region. Her recent work has been published in EcoTheo Review and Fruitslice.
Dylan Hogan
Dylan Hogan (he/him) is a transgender writer who serves as associate editor of samfiftyfour_literary. He earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington Bothell. Originally from Maryland, he currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with an 8-pound dog named Dot.
Jeff Howard
Jeff Howard lives in the Columbia River valley by way of the Allegheny River valley, the Connecticut River valley, and valleys beyond. His work, which has appeared in Consilience, Green Ink, The Thinking Republic, Moonflake, and elsewhere, reflects a Buddhist perspective on the continuum of consciousness in an era of ecological-tailspin-amid-ecological-belonging.
Henry Hughes
Henry Hughes is the author of four poetry collections, including Men Holding Eggs, which received the Oregon Book Award. He is the editor of four Everyman’s Library anthologies, a regular book reviewer for Harvard Review, and the director of Write Place: Literature, Arts & the Environment.
Judy Kaber
Judy Kaber’s poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, december, Poet Lore, and Prairie Schooner. She won the 2023 Maine Poetry Contest, the 2024 Maine Literary Short Works Poetry Award, and the 2024 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest. She is a past poet laureate of Belfast, Maine (2021-2023).
Tricia Knoll
Tricia Knoll is a Vermont poet and bird watcher currently besotted with prose poetry. Her work appears widely in journals and nine collections, both full-length and chapbook. Website: triciaknoll.com
Nancy Krygowski
Nancy Krygowski is the author of The Woman in the Corner and Velocity, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She teaches in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing program and is Co-Editor of the Pitt Poetry Series and Pittsburgh Bureau Chief of the tiny newspaper, Tiny Day.
Sarah Lada
Sarah Lada is a map, earth, and sky-gazer living in central Pennsylvania. She has been published in North Central Review, Red Clay Literary Journal, Autumn House Press, and Bella Grace Magazine.
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee is the author of two collections, Intersection on Neptune (The Poetry Press of Press Americana, 2019), winner of Prize Americana, and On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press, 2006), winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications internationally. www.donnajgelagotislee.com
Elizabeth Joy Levinson
Elizabeth Joy Levinson, a biology teacher in Chicago, has had work published in Whale Road Review, SWWIM, One Art, The Shore, Wild Roof, and others. She is the author of a full-length collection, Uncomfortable Ecologies, available from Unsolicited Press, as well as two chapbooks.
Paul Lindholdt
Paul Lindholdt is a professor at Eastern Washington University whose work has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Washington Center for the Book. His current book-in-progress, his eleventh, has a working title Sacraments of the Flesh.
Barbara A Meier
Barbara A Meier is a retired teacher who works in a second grade classroom in Lincoln, KS. She has three chapbooks published: Wildfire LAL 6, from Ghost City Press, Getting Through Gold Beach, from Writing Knights Press, and Sylvan Grove, from The Poetry Box. She loves all things ancient.
Carol Mikoda
Carol Mikoda (she, her), living near Seneca Lake, is the author of three chapbooks, While You Wait, Wind and Water, Leaf and Lake, and Outside of Time (coming in Fall of 2025). Her work appears in many literary journals, and her prose poem, “Jesus at the Pub,” was nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize in 2024.
Kevin Miller
MoonPath Press published Kevin Miller's Spring Meditation in 2022. His collection, Vanish, received the Wandering Aengus Publication Award in 2019. Miller lives in Tacoma, Washington.
Jon Naskrent
Jon Naskrent is a poet from Western Illinois. His work was longlisted for the 2024 National Poetry Competition by the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom. He is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
Sam New
Sam New holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University. A Best of the Net nominee, her poems and essays appear in South Dakota Review, Portland Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Harpur Palate, Watershed Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Cari Oleskewicz
Cari Oleskewicz is an American writer living in Europe. Her work is found in journals such as Taos Journal of Poetry, Grub Street, little somethings press, Thimble Literary Magazine, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, The Collapsar, Lime Hawk Review, Parentheses Journal, and Mojave River Review. She’s working on a memoir.
Allen M. Price
Allen M. Price was a finalist for the James A. Winn 2025 Michigan Quarterly Review Nonfiction Prize. He won Solstice Literary Magazine’s 2023 Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize (chosen by Grace Talusan), Blue Earth Review’s 2022 Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest, and Columbia Journal’s 2021 Winter Nonfiction Contest (chosen by Pamela Sneed). He’s a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His work appears or is forthcoming in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, The Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review online, among others. He has an MA from Emerson College.
Robert Rice
Robert Rice’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary magazines. Rice’s chapbook Space that Carries Light Forever was selected by Jane Hirshfield as one of two chapbooks in the Wildhouse competition to be published in 2024, and one of the poems has been submitted for a Pushcart Prize.
Heidi Seaborn
Heidi Seaborn is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and winner of The Missouri Review Editors Prize in Poetry. She’s authored three award-winning books/chapbooks of poetry. Recent work in Agni, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Financial Times, Penn Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Slowdown and elsewhere. Heidi holds an MFA from NYU. heidiseabornpoet.com
Tabassam Shah
Tabassam Shah is a Southeastern Pennsylvania poet who centers eco-poetics in her writing. In her workshops and poetry advocacy work, she encourages people of all backgrounds to share stories of their relationships to nature. A Highlights Foundation scholarship recipient, Tabassam is working on picture books about Pakistani American childhood. Her debut poetry collection, Red & Crescent Moons, reflects upon life in rural Appalachia.
Deborah J. Shore
Deborah J. Shore’s poems have recently appeared in Columbia Journal, The London Magazine, Pensive, Nashville Review, and Thimble Lit, among others. She has spent the better part of her life housebound with sudden onset severe ME/CFS. She has won poetry competitions at the Anglican Theological Review and the Alsop Review.
David Starkey
David Starkey is a former Santa Barbara poet laureate and emeritus professor at Santa Barbara City College, where he was founding director of the creative writing program. His most recent collections of poetry are Tell Me Why (BlazeVOX, 2025), The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light (Vine Leaves Press, 2025) and You, Caravaggio (Pine Row Press, 2025).
Noeme Grace C Tabor-Farjani
Noeme Grace C Tabor-Farjani, PhD, is a Tripoli, Libya-based Filipino poet and memoirist. She is the author of the poetry collections The Gospel of Grace (Newcomer Press, 2021) and Inspecting Wastelands (Ukiyoto, 2023) as well as Letters from Libya: Letters-in-Memoirs (2018), a prose chapbook on her family’s escape from war.
Cindy Veach
Cindy Veach is the author of three poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press), Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read.’ She is poetry co-editor of MER.
Kari Wergeland
Kari Wergeland’s work has appeared in many journals, including Atlanta Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, and Slipstream. Her chapbook, Breast Cancer: A Poem in Five Acts (Finishing Line Press), was a category finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Wannabe Blue, her new poetry collection, was released through Cold River Press.
Kristin Camitta Zimet
Kristin Camitta Zimet is the author of Take in My Arms The Dark, a poetry collection, and co-author of A Tender Time, a book about end of life. Her poetry, published in nine countries, has been performed from arboretum to concert hall. She leads Christmas Bird Counts and Nightjar Counts.