Our Editors

Betsy Aoki

Assistant Poetry Editor

Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki is a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist. Her poetry collection about women in technology, Breakpoint, went on to receive the Patricia Bibby First Book Award and its signature poem, “Slouching like a velvet rope,” was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Aoki has received fellowships from the City of Seattle, Artist Trust Foundation, Jackstraw Writers Program, and Hedgebrook.

Her publications include the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Hunger Mountain, The Seattle Times, Nassau Review, Terrain.org (Letters to America series), Phoebe, Enizagam, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Calyx, Asian Pacific Journal, and Southern Humanities Review (as a finalist for Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye).

Chaun Ballard

Assistant Poetry Editor

Chaun Ballard is an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a doctoral student. His chapbook, Flight, was the winner of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and was published by Tupelo Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative, Rattle,Terrain.org, The New York Times, Tupelo Quarterly, and other literary magazines.

Simmons Buntin

Editor-in-Chief and President & Member of the Board, Terrain Publishing

Simmons Buntin is the founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org and the president and member of the board of Terrain Publishing, Terrain.org’s parent nonprofit organization. He has published poetry, essays, and technical articles in publications as varied as Edible Baja Arizona, Orion, Kyoto Journal, and Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. He has a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado Denver, concluded by an award-winning thesis on sustainable suburban downtown redevelopment, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. His paying gig is as director of marketing and communications for the University of Arizona’s College of Information Science. He lives in a small, mid-century townhome community in Tucson, Arizona, where somehow he got talked into serving on the HOA board of directors.

Simmons’s newest book is Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far (Trinity University Press, 2025), which Janisse Ray calls “a field guide to a father’s love.” He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, Colorado Artist’s Fellowship for Poetry, and grants from the U.S. Forest Service, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Tucson-Pima Arts Council. His first book of poetry, Riverfall, was published in 2005 and his second, Bloom, was published in 2010, both by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry. His book Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places (co-authored with Ken Pirie) was published by Planetizen Press in 2013. He is the editor, with Elizabeth Dodd and Derek Sheffield, of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, published on Earth Day 2020 by Trinity University Press. Catch up with him at www.SimmonsBuntin.com or on Substack at Urban Wild.

Kelly Grey Carlisle

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Kelly Grey Carlisle’s essays have appeared in New England Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, and Terrain.org, among others. Her memoir is We Are All Shipwrecks. She teaches in the English Department and the Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Studies at Trinity University.

Doug Carlson

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Doug Carlson is retired from two separate vocations: first as a teacher, ultimately a visiting writer-in-residence at Concordia College in Minnesota, and later as an editor—after 15 years on the staff of The Georgia Review. Essays on natural and cultural history have appeared periodically and in A Place Apart and The Sacred Place. His nonfiction has been collected in two books: 1995’s At the Edge and 1999’s When We Say We’re Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory. An eponymous examination of the life and work of wildlife artist and birding patriarch Roger Tory Peterson was published in 2007. With The Georgia Review colleague Soham Patel, Doug co-edited This Impermanent Earth, published in 2021.

Jennifer Case

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Jennifer Case grew up along the river valleys of Minnesota, in a family that took weekend backpacking trips on the Superior Hiking Trail. The North Shore’s red rock, pine, and lichen have continued to resonate with her even after moving to Nebraska, upstate New York, and Arkansas.

Jennifer’s poetry and prose have appeared in journals such as ISLE, Zone 3, Poet Lore, Hawk & Handsaw, and Stone Canoe, where her work was awarded the 2014 Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize in Fiction. She earned a master’s degree in poetry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in creative writing from Binghamton University. A writer and teacher of writing, Jennifer lives with her husband and daughter in central Arkansas, one mile from the Arkansas River. Her annual summer goal is to harvest enough zucchini for a winter’s worth of zucchini bread.

Janine DeBaise

Education Editor

Janine DeBaise, who has lived in upstate New York her whole life, writes poetry and creative nonfiction that reflect her involvement with ecofeminism and her connection to place. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Southwest Review, The Hopper, and Orion. Her poetry includes the chapbook Of a Feather and the upcoming book Body Language. She teaches at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in upstate New York. In the summer, you can find her sailing Melonseed #153 in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. You can find out more at www.JanineDeBaise.com.

Elizabeth Dodd

Nonfiction Editor and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Elizabeth Dodd was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in Athens, Ohio. For over two decades she has lived in eastern Kansas in the Flint Hills region, where she is an award-winning professor of creative writing and literature at Kansas State University. She has team-taught courses with scientists, philosophers, and historians and she has led students on field trips in conjunction with their readings in environmental literature. Elizabeth is a poet and nonfiction writer. Her newest book, Horizon’s Lens: My Time on the Turning World, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2012. Catch up with her at ElizabethDodd.com.

Cassy Dorff

Assistant Poetry Editor

Cassy Dorff’s poetry is published at Rust + Moth, Black Bough Poetry, and other outlets and has been nominated for a Best of the Net Award. Born and raised in Texas, Cassy currently lives in Nashville,Tennessee and frequents the Appalachian mountains and the Cumberland Plateau. Cassy serves as a volunteer naturalist, rides horses, and works as a political scientist.

Ramona Emerson

Assistant Fiction Editor

Ramona Emerson is a Diné writer and filmmaker originally from Tohatchi, New Mexico. She received her degree in media arts in 1997 from the University of New Mexico and her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) in 2015 from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She has worked as a professional videographer, writer and editor for over 20 years and is currently working on her eighth film project, Crossing the Line. She is an Emmy nominee, a Sundance Native Lab Fellow, a Time-Warner Storyteller Fellow, a Tribeca All-Access Grantee, and a WGBH Producer Fellow. In 2020, Ramona was appointed to the Governor’s Council on Film and Media Industries for the State of New Mexico. Ramona just finished her first novel, Shutter, the first of a trilogy, which will be published with SOHO Books in 2022 as well as adapting the series into a screenplay. Through her storytelling, Emerson looks at contemporary stories about her people and aims to question and redefine the expectations of Native cultural identity, highlighting stories that are not a part of mainstream media. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she and her husband/producer Kelly Byars run their production company Reel Indian Pictures.

Sean Enfield

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Sean Enfield is a writer and educator from Dallas, Texas who recently received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. His work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry, Tahoma Literary Review, The Rumpus, among others, and he was the 2020 recipient of the Fourth Genre‘s Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize. Currently, Sean tends to a community garden in the golden heart of Alaska.

Suzanne Frischkorn

Assistant Poetry Editor

Suzanne Frischkorn is a Cuban American poet and essayist. She is the author of four poetry books, most recently Whipsaw (Anhinga Press) and Fixed Star (JackLeg Press), a Foreword INDIES Finalist, plus Girl on a Bridge, and Lit Windowpane (both from Main Street Rag Press), as well as five chapbooks. She’s the recipient of The Writer’s Center Emerging Writers Fellowship for Lit Windowpane, the Aldrich Poetry Award selected by Mary Oliver for her chapbook Spring Tide, a Connecticut Individual Artist Fellowship, and a 2023 SWWIM Residency Award at The Betsy. Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Salamander, South Dakota Review, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, and A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers. She is also an editor at $ – Poetry is Currency, and previously served on the Terrain.org editorial board.

Nancy Geyer

ARTerrain Editor

Nancy Geyer is an essayist and former art critic. Born in Boston, she grew up in multiple places, including a town in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a suburb of New York City, a suburb of Chicago, and—unhappily for a teenager who had come to love cities—a village in rural upstate New York. Since then she has lived mostly in Washington, D.C., interrupted by lengthy stays in Denver and in Ithaca, NY, perhaps her favorite home and geography of all.

She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the North American Review’s Terry Tempest Williams Prize, Chautauqua’s Flash Writing Prize, The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, Iron Horse Literary Review’s Discovered Voices Award, and Terrain.org’s Nonfiction Prize. Her work has been included in the anthologies Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction (W. W. Norton) and Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Renata Golden

Reviews Editor and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Renata Golden’s essay collection Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment will be published in spring of 2024 as the inaugural book of the CSU Press Nature Series in conjunction with the University of Georgia Press. Other essays and poems have been published in anthologies including Dawn Songs edited by Jamie Reaser and J. Drew Lanham; First and Wildest: The Gila at 100 from Torrey House Press; and When Birds Are Near published by Cornell University Press, as well as numerous literary journals. Her essays have been finalists for the River Teeth Nonfiction Contest, Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Award. Renata has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. To read more, visit renatagolden.com.

Isabel Grey

Assistant Poetry Editor

Isabel Grey is an MFA student in Genre Fiction and Poetry at Western Colorado University. Her poem “This Act Shall Take Effect” was nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize. Her short story “Red Door House” was the winner of the 2023 WordCrafter Press Short Fiction Contest. Isabel’s work can be found in Black Poppy Review, The Chamber Magazine, Terrain.org, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and elsewhere.

Edward Harkness

Assistant Poetry Editor

Edward Harkness is the author of four full-length poetry collections, including Saying the Necessary, Beautiful Passing Lives, The Law of the Unforeseen, and most recently Avalanche: A Survival Guide (Blue Cedar Press, 2023). His poems have appeared widely in print and online journals, most recently in Valparasio Review, Sisyphus Review, Triggerfish Critical Review, Bracken Magazine, Raven Chronicles, Under a Warm Green Linden, Nine Mile, On the Sea Wall, Vox Populi, and SALT. His poems can also be found in The Madrona Project theme-based anthologies, including I Sing the Salmon Home and Art in a Public Voice. He lives in Shoreline, Washington.

Pam Houston

Fiction Editor and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton. Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century, among other anthologies. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award, and several teaching awards. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is professor of English at UC Davis, and is co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

Elizabeth Jacobson

Reviews Editor

Elizabeth Jacobson was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets 2020 Laureate Fellow. Her third collection of poems, There are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral will be published in 2025 by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Her other books include Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air, winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch, (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019) and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book; Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books, 2012); two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, Are the Children Make Believe? and A Brown Stone; and Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away: Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic (Axle Books, 2021). She is a founding director of Poetry Pollinators, an ecopoetry public art initiative dedicated to empowering poetry, education, and the environment in support of declining native bee populations. Elizabeth’s work has been sustained with grants and residencies by literary organizations including eight consecutive grants from The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, New Mexico Arts, Academy of American Poets, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Mable Dodge Luhan House, Herekeke, and East Hill. Originally from New York, Elizabeth landed in New Mexico over 35 years ago and lives in a river canyon at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Shayne Langford

Assistant Fiction Editor

Shayne Langford is a writer from rural Northern California. He worked summers as a fly fishing guide in Southwestern Colorado while earning a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis, where he now teaches in the English Department.

Lisa Levine

Assistant Fiction Editor

Common in deserts and mountains, especially granite, limestone, sandstone, and plastic rock walls. Rare visitor to New York, Chile, and Germany; recorded year-long in Southern Arizona. Usually solitary, but sometimes travels in small groups. Forages on fiction in varied locales, from Manifest West, The Furious Gazelle, Bird’s Thumb, and Cutbank to a personal blog, Alluvial Dispositions. Distinguished by 2014 Pushcart nomination (for the short story “Shelter”). Aesthetics shaped by the University of Arizona MFA program, The Maine Review, Kore Press, and friends. Flocks in classrooms at Presidio School, the University of Arizona, Southern New Hampshire University, and elsewhere.

Hannah D. Markley

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Hannah Markley is writer and educator, and she lives in central Kentucky. She is an MFA candidate in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University where she is also on the editorial staff for Soundings, the program’s online publication. Hannah’s work has received support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Hindman Settlement School, and her writing appears in Bitter Southerner and Appalachian Review.

Melissa Matthewson

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Melissa Matthewson lives and writes in southwestern Oregon. She is the author of Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays from Split/Lip Press (2019). Her nonfiction has appeared in Guernica, AEON Psyche, Literary Hub, Longreads, American Literary Review, The Rumpus, River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Catapult, Bellingham Review, Oregon Humanities, and The Common, among others. Her work has also been awarded an AWP Intro Journals Award in Creative Nonfiction and her book was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. She teaches in the low-residency MFA in Creative and Environmental Writing at Eastern Oregon University.

Anne Haven McDonnell

Poetry Editor

Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches as a full professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts (2023) and MacDowell, she is the author is Breath on a Coal (Middle Creek Press), winner of the Halycon Poetry Prize, runner-up for the ASLE Book Prize, and long-listed for The Laurel Prize, and the chapbook Living with Wolves from Split Rock Press. Her poetry has been published in Orion, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod Journal, and elsewhere. Her honors include a Narrative Annual Poetry Prize, a Gingko Ecopoetry Prize, the 5th Annual Terrain.org Poetry Prize, and a special mention for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has been a writer-in-residence at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, Alaska. Anne loves learning natural history, mycology and mushroom hunting, and moving her body in wild places.

Juniper Moon

Broadside Editor

Juniper Moon cultivates handwork, as a mom, writer, teaching artist, and letterpress printer. Known to hit the road visiting colleges and school-age camps with co-conspirator Traveling Duende (her 200-pound table top letterpress), she believes in the power of art and handwork to change the world one hand-pulled print at a time. From the Willamette Valley to the Salish Sea, she walks trails and streets with her mini Aussie, Tara, unearthing “home” where the inner and outer worlds meet. The heart of her handwork—writing, carving, drawing, hand-setting type, letterpress printing—beats by the push-pull progression of contrarieties. By defining space and creating through handwork, she identifies and harnesses these life forces as a creative advocate who summons duende and creates a space for the ordinary and ecstatic simpatico on the page.

She has been recognized by numerous fellowships, residencies, and exhibits across the country. Her handwork includes broadsides for poets Alison Hawthorne Deming, Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, and Sam Hamill. Her poems have appeared in Gods, Goddesses, Myth: Regional Women Poets, Floating Bridge Review, City Arts and the Tacoma Arts Museum 20/20: Tacoma in Images and Verse broadside show, and Vox Populi. A graduate of the Evergreen State College, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She is a community college professor and founded Dwell Press in 2010.

Joseph Powell

Assistant Poetry Editor

Joseph Powell has published seven collections of poetry: Counting the Change, which won the Quarterly Review of Literature’s Book Award in 1986; Winter Insomnia, which was published by Arrowood Books in 1993; and Getting Here, which also won the Quarterly Review of Literature’s Book Award in 1997. Hard Earth (2010) and Preamble to the Afterlife (2013) were published by March Street Press. Holding Nothing Back (2019) was published by Main Street Rag, and The Slow Subtraction: A.L.S. (2019) was published by MoonPath Press. His book of short stories, Fish Grooming & Other Stories, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in 2008. He has also co-written a book on poetic meter called Accent on Meter published by the NCTE in 2004. He has published four poetry chapbooks. For his poetry he has won a National Endowment for the Arts Award (2009), an Artist Trust Award (2005), the Tom Pier Award (2006), and 12 poems and one story have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes from a variety of literary magazines. An essay won the Victor J. Emmett, Jr. Memorial Award from The Midwest Quarterly (2007). He was awarded Central Washington University’s Phi Beta Kappa Scholar of the Year (2004), and named a Distinguished University Professor in Artistic Accomplishment in 2009. Joseph taught in the English department at Central Washington University for 30 years and is now an emeritus professor.

Achilles Fergus Seastrom

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Achilles (he/him) is a trans writer, editor, and artist from the Midwest. He’s a 2023-2024 Hogrefe Fellow at Iowa State University, where he’s currently pursuing his MFA. He also works as a freelance journalist and reads fiction for the science fiction magazine James Gunn’s Ad Astra.

Melissa L. Sevigny

Interviews Editor

Melissa L. Sevigny is the author of three books of nonfiction, Brave the Wild River (W.W. Norton, 2023), Mythical River (University of Iowa Press, 2016), and Under Desert Skies (University of Arizona Press, 2016). She has worked as a science writer in the fields of Western water policy, planetary science, and sustainable agriculture, and was a member of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Scout Mission during its operations on the surface of Mars. She has a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona and an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. She currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she is the science and technology reporter for KNAU. She enjoys hiking, fishing, and taking road trips.

Derek Sheffield

Derek Sheffield’s collection, Not for Luck, was selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. His other books include Through the Second Skin, finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and A Revised Account of the West, selected by Debra Marquart for the Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook Award. He is a coeditor of two collections, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Southern Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, Orion, The Gettysburg Review, Northwest Review, and AGNI. He has been awarded fellowships from the Spring Creek Project, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Artist Trust, Allied Arts, 4Culture, and the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. Other honors include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee, a finalist selection for the 2018 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize judged by Vijay Seshadri, and a Special Mention in the 2016 Pushcart Anthology.

He lives with his family in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains near Leavenworth, Washington, where he birds, fishes, hikes, gardens, forest bathes, and parents. He takes much delight in the fact that his daughters know many of their fellow plant and animal beings and are often busy making their own poems and paintings when they aren’t assembling twigs, leaves, and grasses into nests and boats for Fairies. He’s been fortunate enough to bird with both J. Drew Lanham and David Allen Sibley. As a professor of English at Wenatchee Valley College, he teaches poetry and ecological writing and serves as co-chair of the Sustainability Committee. Catch up with him at www.DerekSheffield.com.

Leonora Simonovis

Currents Editor

Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet, educator, and scholar living on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation (San Diego, California). She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Currently, she is a professor of Latin American literature and culture as well as creative writing in Spanish at the University of San Diego, as well as a reviews editor for Ecotheo. Her poetry manuscript, Study of the Raft, was selected by final judge Sherwin Bitsui as the winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry and received Honorable Mention at the 2022 International Latino Book Awards. Her work has appeared in Verse Daily, River Mouth Review, Kweli Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Diode, Inverted Syntax, and Arkansas International, among others. Leonora has received fellowships from VONA, Women Who Submit, and the Poetry Foundation.

Jeremy Voigt

Assistant Poetry Editor

Jeremy Voigt is the author of the book Something to Carry Home and Not Kill, forthcoming from Elixir Press, and two chapbooks: Neither Rising Nor Falling (Finishing Line Press) and The Invisible Heart of Everything (Floating Bridge Press). His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Gulf Coast, Post Road, Willow Springs, BPJ, and other magazines. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was featured on The Writer’s Almanac, and was runner up for the 2019 Discovery Poetry Prize. He is a high school English teacher and adjunct professor. He lives by a large lake in western Washington with his wife and three children.

Jarrett Ziemer

Assistant Poetry Editor

Jarrett Ziemer is an MFA student in creative writing at Western Colorado University. His poem “A Fish–Tenkara” was awarded an honorable mention in Deep Wild Journal’s 2023 graduate student writing contest, and his poem “A Bed as a Nest” was awarded an honorable mention in Dreamers Magazine’s 2023 “Dreamers Writing Contest.” Jarrett received an International Merit Award in the Atlanta Review 2023 International Poetry Competition, was the featured poet at the 33rd annual Headwaters Conference and is a 2023 Truth and Beauty Scholar and a 2023 Litfuse Scholar. Jarrett’s work can be found in Belmont Story Review, Creative Nonfiction, and other publications.

Byron F. Aspaas

Editorial Board Member

Byron F. Aspaas. Raised within the four sacred mountains of Dinétah. Byron’s first published work was included in Yellow Medicine Review and since then his writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His writing revisits the destruction of sacred land and engages his readers in a dialogue about preserving Diné culture and land. He uses imagery and persona to present explorations of language, landscape, and identity. Byron is faculty at San Juan College’s English Department and Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing Program.

Sherwin Bitsui

Editorial Board Member

Sherwin Bitsui (Diné) is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is Diné of the Todich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl’izilani (Many Goats Clan). He is the author of Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press, 2003), Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), and Dissolve (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). His honors include a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Arts Fellowship. He is also the recipient of a 2010 PEN Open Book Award, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. In addition to teaching at the Institute of American Indian Arts, he is on faculty at Northern Arizona University.

Taylor Brorby

Editorial Board Member

Taylor Brorby is contributing editor at North American Review. An award-winning essayist and poet, Taylor’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, High Country News, and Orion and has been supported by the MacDowell Colony, the National Book Critics Circle, Mesa Refuge, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, and the North Dakota Humanities Council. He’s the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Crude: Poems, and Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. He’s the Annie Tanner Clark Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the University of Utah.

Scott Calhoun

Editorial Board Member and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Scott Calhoun explores backroads and backcountry in search of plants, gardens, architecture, and food. Scott has written and provided photographs for five critically acclaimed gardening books. His first book, Yard Full of Sun, received the 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award; his second title, Chasing Wildflowers, was awarded the Garden Writers Association 2008 Silver Book Award. Scott’s most recent titles include Designer Plant Combinations, The Hot Garden, andHot Pots. Scott has been a contributing editor to Horticulture magazine, written a monthly garden column for Sunset magazine, and currently freelances for numerous print publications including American Gardener, Country Gardens, and Wildflower. Based in Tucson, Arizona, Scott designs gardens, writes, and lectures across the United States. Catch up with Scott at www.zonagardens.com.

Rob Carney

Editorial Board Member

Rob Carney is originally from Washington state, 22 years in Puyallup/Tacoma and four in Spokane. He has a BA in English from Pacific Lutheran University, an MFA from Eastern Washington University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is the author of nine books of poems, including The Book of Drought (Texas Review Press, 2024), winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, and Call and Response (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), and his collection of creative nonfiction, Accidental Gardens: New & Revised, is forthcoming from Wakefield Press. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, The Dark Mountain Project, Sugar House Review, and many other journals, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2013 he won the Terrain.org Poetry Award and in 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Prize for Poetry. He is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City. Follow his Terrain.org series Old Roads, New Stories.

Joy Castro

Editorial Board Member

Joy Castro is the author of the memoir The Truth Book, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans: Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the essay collection Island of Bones, and the short fiction collection How Winter Began. Her work has appeared in venues including Ploughshares, Senses of Cinema, Brevity, Fourth Genre, North American Review, Salon, Afro-Hispanic Review, Gulf Coast, and the New York Times Magazine. The Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, she teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx studies.

Kurt Caswell

Editorial Board Member

Kurt Caswell is the author of four books of nonfiction, most recently, Laika’s Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog (2018), which tells the story of the first animal to orbit the Earth. His other books are Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents (2015), In the Sun’s House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation (2009), and An Inside Passage (2009), which won the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize, and a Texas Tech University President’s Book Award. Caswell was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and grew up in the Cascade Range in Oregon. He has worked as a teacher in Hokkaido, Japan, on the Navajo Reservation, at schools in Arizona, California, and Wyoming, and in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. A graduate of both the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College (MA), and the Bennington College Writing Seminars (MFA), his work has earned numerous Pushcart nominations, the Lucy Grealy Memorial Scholarship, fellowships at Fishtrap writers’ conference and the MacDowell Colony, and other honors. His essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in American Literary Review, High Country News, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ninth Letter, Orion, River Teeth, and other publications. He is professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University.

Miriam Marty Clark

Editorial Board Member

Miriam Marty Clark is an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University in Alabama. A native Midwesterner, she has lived in the small-town South for more than twenty years. She teaches courses in American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has a special interest in American poetry from Whitman and Emerson to the present. She has published essays on a number of twentieth century writers including poets A. R. Ammons and Howard Nemerov and short story writers Alice Munro, William Trevor, Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, and Grace Paley. She has also published poems. At present she is working on a book about the twentieth-century American philosopher and rhetorician Kenneth Burke and his influential friendships with several American poets including John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, Howard Nemerov, and A. R. Ammons. Along with Burke’s writings, many of which address the relationship between nature and human action in culture and technology, she is studying his extensive correspondence with poets and critics. Miriam is married to Drew Clark, who teaches Renaissance literature at Auburn. They have two daughters.

Kai Coggin

Editorial Board Member

Kai Coggin (she/her) is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and a recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her project Sharing Tree Space. She is the author of five collections, most recently Mother of Other Kingdoms (Harbor Editions, 2024) and Mining for Stardust (FlowerSong Press, 2021). Kai is a Certified Master Naturalist, a K-12 teaching artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council, an Interchange Grant Fellow with the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry.

Kai was awarded the 2023 Don Munro Leadership in the Arts Award for Visionary Service, and the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award for Arts in Education. She was twice named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times, and nominated for Arkansas State Poet Laureate and Hot Springs Woman of the Year. Her fierce and tender poetry has been nominated six times for s Pushcart Prize, and awarded Best of the Net in 2022. Ten of Kai’s poems are going to the moon with the Lunar Codex project, and on Earth they have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Poets.org, Prairie Schooner, Best of the Net, Cultural Weekly, SOLSTICE, The Night Heron Barks, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, and elsewhere. Coggin is editor-at-large at SWWIM and editorial board member of Terrain.org, as well as associate editor at The Rise Up Review. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. She lives with her wife in a peaceful valley where they tend to wild ones and each other.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Editorial Board Member and Director, Terrain Publishing Board of Directors

Alison Hawthorne Deming was born and grew up in Connecticut. Her most recent books are the poetry collection Stairway to Heaven (Penguin 2016) and Death Valley: Painted Light, a collaboration with photographer Stephen Strom (George F. Thomson 2016). The essay collection Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit was published by Milkweed Editions in 2014. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Science and Other Poems, selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and three additional poetry books: The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence, Genius Loci, and Rope. Alison’s earlier nonfiction books are Temporary Homelands, The Edges of the Civilized World, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real. She edited Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology and co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Her work has won numerous awards, including a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pablo Neruda Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Bayer Award in Science Writing from Creative Nonfiction for the essay “Poetry and Science: A View From the Divide.” Her poems and essays have been widely published and anthologized, including in The Georgia Review, Orion, Sierra, OnEarth, Verse and Universe: Poems on Science and Mathematics, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and Best American Science and Nature Writing. She currently is Agnese Nelms Haury Chair of Environment and Social Justice in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona. She is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. Read Terrain.org’s 2010 interview with Alison..

Danielle Dubrasky

Editorial Board Member

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky directs the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values and is an associate professor of creative writing at Southern Utah University. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Chiron Review, South Dakota Review, Ninth Letter, Main Street Rag, Pilgrimage, saltfront, Sugar House Review, Cave Wall, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Under a Warm Green Linden, and Terrain.org. Her chapbook Ruin and Light won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition. Her poems were also published in a limited edition art book Invisible Shores by Red Butte Press of the University of Utah. Danielle is the director of the Eco-poetry and the Essay Conference at Southern Utah University and is co-editor of an upcoming anthology, Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild, Torrey House Press. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah and an MA in English/creative writing from Stanford. She is also lead author of a curriculum for poetry therapy in groups published by the Journal of Poetry Therapy. She is a two-time winner of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums original writing competition in poetry and serves on the governing board of the Utah Humanities Council. Danielle is originally from Charlottesville, Virginia.

Rina P. Espaillat

Editorial Board Member

Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Her family was exiled to the United States and settled in New York City. She began writing poetry in Spanish and then in English, and has published in both languages. Espaillat has published 17 collections, comprising poetry, short stories, essays, and translations. Those include Lapsing to Grace (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), winner of the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry; The Shadow I Dress In (2004), winner of the Stanzas Prize; Rehearsing Absence (2001), 2001 winner of the Richard Wilbur Award; Playing at Stillness (2005); a bilingual chapbook titled Mundo y Palabra / The World and the Word (2001); Her Place in These Designs (2008); El olor de la memoria / The Scent of Memory (2007); Agua de dos rios / Water from Two Rivers (2017); and most recently And After All (2018) and The Field (2019). Espaillat’s work has garnered many awards, including the Sparrow Sonnet Award, three Poetry Society of America awards, the Der-Hovanessian Translation Award from the New England Poetry Club, and, for her Spanish translations of Robert Frost, the Tree at My Window Award from the Robert Frost Foundation. She is a two-time winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. In 2008 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College. She is a founding member of both the Fresh Meadows Poets and the Powow River Poets.

Rhina P. Espaillat nació en la República Dominicana bajo la dictadura de Rafael Trujillo. Su familia fue exiliada a los Estados Unidos y se instaló en la ciudad de Nueva York. Comenzó a escribir poesía en español y luego en inglés, y publica en ambos idiomas. Ha publicado diez y siete colecciones que abarcan poesía, cuentos, ensayos y traducciones. Esas incluyen Lapsing to Grace (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), ganador del Premio T. S. Eliot 1998; The Shadow I Dress In (2004), ganador del Premio Stnzasa; Rehearsing Absence (2001), ganador del Premio Richard Wilbur Award 2001; Playing at Stillness (2005); un chapbook titulado Mundo y Palabra / The World and the Word (2001); Her Place in These Designs (2008); El olor de la memoria / The Scent of Memory (2007); Agua de dos ríos / Water from Two Rivers (2017); And after All 2018) y The Field (2019). La obra de Rhina Espaillat ha obtenido otros premios, entré ellos el Sparrow Sonnet Award, tres premios anuales de la Poetry Society of America, el Premio Der-Hovanessian otorgado por el New England Poetry Club, y el premio Tree at My Window, de la Robert Frost Foundation, por sus traducciones al español de las obras de Robert Frost. En 2008 recibió un Reconocimiento con Motivo de Logros Vitalicios de Salem State College. Es miembro fundadora de dos organizaciones literarias, los Fresh Meadows Poets y los Powow River Poets.

Deborah Fries

Editorial Board Member

Deborah Fries spent her childhood in western Pennsylvania, where she was determined to see beyond the Alleghenies. Living along the shores of Lake Michigan for 24 years gave her the big, curving horizon she always wanted to know. Returned to Pennsylvania, she lives and writes in suburban Philadelphia, where she is also a printmaker. She is the author of two books of poetry—Various Modes of Departure (2004) and The Bright Field of Everything (2014)—and is currently working on a third book, along with a series of multicultural screenplays with a partner. Deborah has been a contributor to Terrain.org since 2000. Learn more about her projects and the writing workshops she teaches at www.deborahfries.net.

CMarie Fuhrman

Editorial Board Member

CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate Poetry Series, Etchings Press, 2020) and co-editor of Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations (Tupelo Press, 2019). She has published poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals, including Emergence Magazine, Platform Review, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, and several anthologies. CMarie is a regular columnist for the Inlander, translations editor for Broadsided Press, and the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. She also directs the Poetry Program at Western Colorado University, where she also teaches nature writing. She is the current Idaho Writer in Residence and resides in the mountains of West Central Idaho. Catch up with her at CMarieFuhrman.com.

Allen Geen

Editorial Board Member and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Allen Geeis the Donald L. Jordan Distinguished Chair of Creative Writing at Columbus State University, where he teaches fiction and creative nonfiction, leads service trips abroad, and is the director/editor of Columbus State University Press. He is the author of the essay collection My Chinese America, and is currently working on the biography of James Alan McPherson, under contract with University of Georgia Press. Gee’s essay “Old School” won a Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared in numerous journals. He is a former editor of the multicultural imprint 2040 Books, was editor at Gulf Coast, and served as fiction editor for Arts & Letters for over a decade. His charitable efforts have focused most recently on the village of Vuelta Grande in Guatemala. Find him online at www.allengee.com.

Charles Goodrich

Editorial Board Member

Charles Goodrich is the author of two volumes of poems, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden (Silverfish Review Press, 2010) and Insects of South Corvallis (Cloudbank Books, 2003), and a collection of essays about nature, parenting, and building his own house, The Practice of Home (Lyons Press, 2004). He has also co-edited Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (University of Washington Press, 2018) and In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helen (OSU Press, 2008). A number of his poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. After working for 25 years as a professional gardener, he served as director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University, and is now retired. Charles has an MFA in creative writing from OSU. For more information, visit www.charlesgoodrich.com.

Andrew C. Gottlieb

Editorial Board Member

Born in Canada and raised outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Andrew C. Gottlieb now lives in Irvine, California, and has been on the West Coast since 1998. He studied writing at Iowa State University, getting his MA in English, and then at the University of Washington, earning his MFA in fiction writing. His own work has appeared in many journals both online and in print including the American Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, ISLE, and Poets & Writers, and a chapbook of poems, Halflives, came out from New Michigan Press in 2005. Along with his wife and two stepteens, he’s often trying to escape to a national or state park, the Central Coast, a beach, the deserts of Arizona, or some other popular or obscure wilderness location in order to hike, fish, gaze, write, or simply enjoy the outdoors.

Lee Herrick

Editorial Board Member

Lee Herrick is the author of Scar and Flower and two other books of poems, Gardening Secrets of the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books, 2020). His poems appear widely in literary magazines, textbooks, and anthologies such as One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; Here: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; California Fire and Water; and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months, he served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. He lives in Fresno, California and teaches at Fresno City College and the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Editorial Board Member

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke came of age working in fields, factories, and waters. She was raised and spent her early adult life primarily in North Carolina, but also in Canada and across the Great Plains U.S. She was a sharecropper by the time she was mid-teens and continued manual labor in mostly rural settings until retraining for former fieldworkers after her disabilities precluded continuation. Her books include The Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn, and Streaming as well as a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival. She is the editor of the anthologies Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, Effigies II, and Effigies III. She recently served in a Fulbright to Montenegro and in the Dan & Maggie Inouye Chair in Democratic Ideals, and has served as Reynolds Chair of Poetry, as an NEH Chair in Creative Writing/Critical Studies, as an artist in residence (writer) and a distinguished visiting writer. She has received several fellowships and honors and teaches for the University of California at Riverside, where she directs Writers Week and Along the Chaparral: memorializing the enshrined, federal outreach project with K-12 schools. She is the founder/organizer of the Sandhill Crane Retreat.

Sean Hill

Editorial Board Member and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book (University of Georgia Press, 2008). He’s received numerous awards including fellowships from Cave Canem, the Region 2 Arts Council, the Bush Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, The Jerome Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Hill’s poems and essays have appeared in Callaloo, Harvard Review, New England Review, Orion, Oxford American, Poetry, Tin House, and numerous other journals, and in over a dozen anthologies including Black Nature and Villanelles. Hill has taught at several universities, most recently at the University of Alaska – Fairbanks and Georgia Southern University. He is a consulting editor at Broadsided Press, a monthly broadside publisher. Hill has also served as the director of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference at Bemidji State University since 2012. He lives in Montana with his family and will be Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Montana for the 2020-2021 academic year. Find more information at www.seanhillpoetry.com.

Julian Hoffman

Editorial Board Member

Julian Hoffman was born in England and grew up in Canada. In 2000 he moved with his wife Julia to live beside the Prespa Lakes in northern Greece. Julian’s writing and photography explore the connections between people, place, and nature. His book, The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World, was chosen by Terry Tempest Williams as the winner of the 2012 AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction, going on to win a National Outdoor Book Award in 2014 for Natural History Literature. His latest book, Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, was published in 2019. Along with winning the 2011 Terrain.org Nonfiction Prize and two Pushcart Prize nominations, his writing has appeared in EarthLines, Among Animals, Lush Times, Southern Humanities Review, Kyoto Journal, Flyway, and The Redwood Coast Review. You can find out more about Julian at julian-hoffman.com/. Read Terrain.org’s 2015 interview with Julian.

Erik Hoffner

Editorial Board Member

Erik Hoffner is a freelance photojournalist and fine art photographer whose work has appeared in publications ranging from The Guardian to The Washington Post to The Sun. His photography has been exhibited at galleries throughout New England and as far away as the New Mexico State Capitol. As an editor for Mongabay, he works to keep 36 million global readers informed of the latest developments in conservation news and science. Previously, he was a columnist, photographer, and podcast host for Orion. An exhibiting member at the Vermont Center for Photography and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Erik lives in Western Massachusetts. Learn more about Erik at www.erikhoffner.com.

Ever Jones

Editorial Board Member

Ever Jones (they/them) is a queer/trans writer, painter, and instructor living in Seattle. Their forthcoming poetry collection, nightsong (Sundress Publications), is a transliberatory lyric for identity, nature, and erasure. They have published two other poetry collections, Wilderness Lessons (futurecycle) and a chapbook, Primitive Elegy (alicebluebooks). They are a professor of creative writing at the University of Washington in Tacoma and an instructor at Richard Hugo House. Their poetry is forthcoming from POETRY and Yes, Poetry, and can be found at Tupelo Quarterly, Bellingham Review, and others. Visit their website at everjones.com.

Amy Knight

Editorial Board Member

Amy Knight is a lawyer by day, writer/reader/editor by night. She has lived in Berkeley, California; San Carlos, California; the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Poughkeepsie, New York; Washington, D.C.; Tucson, Arizona; Palo Alto, California; San Jose, California; Helena, Montana; and Tucson, again. She has an undergraduate degree in English and cognitive science from Vassar College, an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Arizona, and a law degree from Stanford. Check out her website (amypknight.com) and follow her on Twitter: @amypknight.

J. Drew Lanham

Editorial Board Member

J. Drew Lanham, PhD, is an author, poet, public speaker and scientist, from Edgefield and Aiken, South Carolina. He is an Alumni Distinguished Professor and Master Teacher of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University, whose work addresses the confluence of race, place and nature. A conservation and cultural ornithologist, he has mentored nearly 50 graduate students, published extensively in the scientific literature, and taught courses in conservation biology, forest ecology, wildlife policy, ornithology, and environmental literature/nature writing.

Drew is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield County, S.C. and the author of Sparrow Envy: Poems (Holocene 2016, Hub City 2018), Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts (Hub City 2021) and The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature (Milkweed Editions, 2016). His memoir is a past winner of the Reed Environmental Writing Award (Southern Environmental Law Center) and the Southern Book Prize and a  2017 finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. It was named a memoir and scholarly book of the decade (Lithub and Chronicle of Higher Education, respectively). He has contributed chapters to a number of anthologies, including Carolina Writers at Home, Literary Dogs, Bartram’s Living Legacy, The Colors of Nature, and Outdoor Adventures in the Upcountry.

Drew’s creative work and opinion appears online and in print in Orion, Vanity Fair, Oxford American, High Country News, Bitter Southerner, Cutthroat, Terrain.org, Places Journal, Literary Hub, Newsweek, Slate, NPR, Story Corps, Audubon, Sierra Magazine, The New York Times, American Bird Conservancy,  Leopold Outlook, and Flycatcher Journal. His online presence on YouTube as well as social media is extensive. He teaches writing workshops in creative nonfiction for Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference, Bemidji Writer’s Conference, Chico Writer’s Conference and Orion. He is a contributing editor for Orion.

Dr. Lanham is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and the winner of the Dan W. Lufkin Conservation Award (National Audubon Society), Rosa Parks and Grace Lee Boggs Outstanding Service Award (North American Association for Environmental Education), and the E.O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation (Center for Biological Diversity). He is a Fellow of the Clemson Parks Institute and Safina Center and serves as an advisor to Georgia Audubon. Drew is also a public speaker and past board member of the National Audubon Society, Audubon South Carolina, South Carolina Wildlife Federation, Aldo Leopold Foundation, Bird Note, and The American Birding Association.

Karen An-hwei Lee

Editorial Board Member

Karen An-hwei Lee is a poet and novelist who lives in greater Chicago. Her recent books are The Maze of Transparencies (Ellipsis Press, 2019), Sonata in K (Ellipsis Press, 2016), and Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012). She has taught in the low-residency MFA program at Seattle Pacific University and served in the administration at Point Loma Nazarene University. Currently, she is the provost at Wheaton College.

Jessie Lendennie

Editorial Board Member

Jessie Lendennie is a poet and publisher. Born in Arkansas, she lived in California and New York City before leaving the States for London, England, in 1970. She obtained a BA honours degree in Philosophy at Kings College, London, and a post-graduate degree in education from the Roehampton Institute, London. She began to publish her poetry in England during the 1970s, and in 1981, she moved to Galway, County Galway, Ireland, where she was a founder member of the Galway Writing Workshop, and founding editor of the journal The Salmon. The journal led to book publishing, and in 1984 Salmon Publishing (now Salmon Poetry) was established. Since 1986 she has run the press as its editor and managing director, commissioning, editing, and publishing over 350 books of poetry and prose. Many of these books were first collections from Irish women poets—a groundbreaking move in Irish poetry. Her own poetry explores the relationship between landscape and human ideals. Her books include Daughter (1988), Daughter and Other Poems (2001), and Walking Here (2011). She has given numerous workshops, lectures, and writing courses in Ireland and abroad, including Yale University, University of Maryland, Marshall University, University of Alaska in Anchorage, University of Southern Illinois, Trinity College in Dublin, National University of Ireland, Rutgers University, University of Arkansas, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has read her poetry at dozens of venues in North America and Europe. In 1998 she was a writer-in-residence at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Jessie runs Salmon Poetry and the Salmon Bookshop from a house on a hill overlooking the Atlantic, half a mile from the fabulous Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare, Ireland. Read Terrain.org’s 2001 interview with Jessie.

Carly Lettero

Editorial Board Member

Carly Lettero is a mother, interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and community organizer. She directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University. She also manages and teaches in the MA in Environmental Arts and Humanities program at Oregon State University. She has nearly two decades of experience managing and developing programming with local and international nonprofits that are dedicated to environmental rights and action. She co-founded Communities Take Charge, a grassroots program that encourages communities and schools throughout the Pacific Northwest to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and become active in local climate change movements. She puts on her backpack whenever she gets the chance and has spent years traveling the world and listening to people’s stories.

Eric Magrane

Editorial Board Member

Eric Magrane is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at New Mexico State University, where he teaches human and cultural geography. He is the editor, with Christopher Cokinos, of The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016) and with Linda Russo, Sarah de Leeuw, and Craig Santos Perez, of Geopoetics in Practice (Routledge, 2020). His scholarly and creative works have appeared in Ecotone, Literary Geographies, Cultural Geographies, GeoHumanities, Antipode, and the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography and in the books Counter-desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan), Big Energy Poets: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change (BlazeVOX), and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Geography and an MFA in Creative Writing, both from the University of Arizona.

Tara Lynn Masih

Editorial Board Member

Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of a Julia Ward Howe Award for her debut YA novel My Real Name Is Hanna. How We Disappear, her latest story collection, won a Florida Book Award, and her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in numerous literary magazines, including Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, The Caribbean Writer, Five Points, and Pleiades. Her work appears in such collections as W.W. Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction; Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose; Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming; and Two Worlds Walking: Short Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Writers with Mixed Heritages. Additional recognition includes The Ledge Magazine’s Fiction Award, a Wigleaf Top 50 Award, and a finalist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In addition, her fiction was awarded two Neville Citations for best climate fiction of the year and a portion of her climate essay “Be Prepared to Evacuate” was translated into dance. Tara is editor of the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and founded the Best Small Fictions series. Much of her writing is set within the framework of nature and place, a result of the years she spent outdoors in the woods and on the shores of Long Island Sound.

Juan J. Morales

Editorial Board Member

Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections, including The Siren World and The Handyman’s Guide to End Times, winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award. His poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Laurel Review, Breakbeats Vol. 4 LatiNEXT, Acentos Review, Salamander, Pank, and Poetry. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondo Fellow, the editor/publisher of Pilgrimage Press, and professor and department chair of English & World Languages at Colorado State University Pueblo.

Nick Neely

Editorial Board Member

Nick Neely grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and now lives in Hailey, Idaho, with his wife, the painter Sarah Bird. His first book, Coast Range: A Collection from the Pacific Edge (Counterpoint Press, 2016), was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing and CLMP’s Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. His nonfiction is published in journals including Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and Orion, and he is the recipient of the 2015 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award, an AAAS-Kavli Science Journalism Award, and the PEN Northwest Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His next book, Alta California (Counterpoint Press, 2019), recounts the 12-week trek he made from San Diego to San Francisco retracing the first overland Spanish expedition through the territory.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Editorial Board Member

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s newest book is a collection of illustrated nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions, September 2020), from which this essay is excerpted. She is also the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Oceanic, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She received a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.

Ian Ramsey

Editorial Board Member

Ian Ramsey is the author of Hackable Animal (Wayfarer Books), finalist for the Prism Climate Prize. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and featured in Terrain.org, Orion, High Desert Journal, and many other publications, as well as in collections like The Gift of Animals, Writing for Peace, and Maine Voices. Based in Maine, Ian is the founding director of the Kauffmann Program for Environmental Writing and Wilderness Exploration at North Yarmouth Academy, where he has taught environmental writing, expeditioning, neuroscience, creative entrepreneurship, and music for 26 years. A licensed Maine Guide, Ian holds the highest sea kayak leadership award in the world and has led trips and backcountry expeditions on four continents, with a special focus on Alaska. He holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, has been an artist-in-residence at the Mount St. Helens Science Center and other locations, and frequently collaborates with climate scientists on field research. Ian is a founding board member of Physiology First, a global nonprofit that teaches students, families, and educators how to manage anxiety, perform, and learn better. You can learn more at www.ianramsey.net.

Janisse Ray

Editorial Board Member

Janisse Ray is an American writer who explores the borderland of nature and culture. She has won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Bookseller Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Award, Nautilus Award, and Eisenberg Award, among others; and has has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, was a The New York Times Notable Book. Her eighth book, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans, was released in October 2021, with the paperback release set for August 2022. She lives and works inland from Savannah, Georgia. Learn more at JanisseRay.com.

David Rothenberg

Editorial Board Member

Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, published in eight languages. It was turned into a feature length BBC TV documentary. Rothenberg has also written Thousand Mile Song, about making music live with whales, Survival of the Beautiful, on evolution and beauty, and Bug Music, on insects and their million-years old music. His music, recorded on ECM, Gruenrekorder, and the Terra Nova labels, usually involves an integration with his clarinet improvisation with live and recorded natural sounds. Rothenberg has nine CDs out under his own name and also hosts a podcast, Soundwalker. David is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and writes the Bull Hill column for Terrain.org.

Lauret Edith Savoy

Editorial Board Member and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Tracing memory threads Lauret Edith Savoy’s life and work: unearthing what is buried, re-membering what is fragmented, shattered, eroded. A woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage, she writes about the stories we tell of the American land’s origins and the stories we tell of ourselves in this land. Her books include Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (2015), The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology, and Living with the Changing California Coast. Trace won the 2016 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the 2017 ASLE Creative Writing Award. It was also a finalist for the 2016 PEN American Open Book Award and Phillis Wheatley Book Award, as well as shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and Orion Book Award. Lauret is the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology at Mount Holyoke College, a photographer, and pilot. Winner of Mount Holyoke’s Distinguished Teaching Award and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, she has also held fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution and Yale University. She is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Read Terrain.org’s 2016 interview with Lauret.

Hilary Stunda

Editorial Board Member and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Hilary Stunda has been writing about arts and culture, architecture, and design for several decades for a variety of publications such as Sculpture, Wallpaper, Wonderlust, and Art in America. She has interviewed such artists and personalities as Jasper Johns, CHRISTO, Teresita Fernandez, and Hunter S. Thompson. A graduate of Columbia University, she came to Tucson, Arizona via Aspen, Colorado, where she wrote narrations for extreme adventure documentaries and eventually produced a show that took her and three mountain bikers to Mt. Everest Base Camp. A former editor-in-chief of Aspen magazine and several other national publications, she continues to look for the extraordinary in the quotidian and is currently producing a podcast on the neuroscience of compassion. When she finishes her daily morning pages, which she plans to turn into her first novel, she likes to make Thai food for her family and hike to remote places.

Galina Tachieva

Editorial Board Member

Galina Tachieva is an expert in sustainable urbanism, urban redevelopment, sprawl repair, form-based codes, and resort towns. As a partner at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects and Town Planners (DPZ), Tachieva directs the design and implementation of projects in the U.S. and around the world. Tachieva is the author of the Sprawl Repair Manual, an award-winning publication by Island Press, which focuses on the retrofit of auto-centric suburban places into complete, vibrant communities. She has written articles forDesignIntelligence, Architecture and the City International, and Planetizen, and is a contributor to The New Civic Art and the forthcoming The Transect Reader. Galina is one of the leaders of the Congress for the New Urbanism Sprawl Retrofit Initiative. She is the primary author of the SmartCode Sprawl Repair Module. Galina is originally from Bulgaria, where she received her degree in architecture, and later finished her master’s degree in urban design at the University of Miami in Florida. She lectures around the world on topics of sprawl retrofit and sustainable development. Tachieva is a founding member of the Congress for European Urbanism and a board member of the New Urban Guild Foundation and the Transect Codes Council. She is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners and by the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED-Accredited Professional.

Hannah Fries

Contributing Editor

Hannah Fries is the author of the poetry collection Little Terrarium and the book Forest Bathing Retreat. She grew up in New Hampshire, went to Dartmouth College, and later got an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. From 2005 to 2014 she worked as an editor—including poetry editor—at Orion magazine before moving on to be a project editor for Storey Publishing, where she has edited books about, among other things, timber framing, tiny houses, tea blending, nature journaling, chocolate, creativity, and dreams. Her poetry and prose have appeared in such places as American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Drunken Boat, Water~Stone Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she is the recipient of a Colorado Art Ranch residency and a Bread Loaf scholarship. Hannah is currently a freelance editor and writer living with her family in western Massachusetts. In the springtime you’ll find her in the garden, in the wintertime on cross-country skis, and in summer and fall in her hiking boots as much as possible. She also bakes a mean pie. Visit her online at HannahFries.com.

Paulina Jenney

Contributing Editor

Paulina Jenney was born and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. Since her 2016 graduation from the University of Arizona with degrees in environmental studies and creative writing, she has worked as a farmhand, builder, bartender, and caretaker across the Americas. Now, she is fulfilling a Fulbright year in Gijón, Spain. When not in front of a book or a blank page, she can be found paragliding, practicing yoga, and running races for which she is terribly under-prepared. Paulina’s blogs, Notes Across the Andes have been published in Terrain.org and Conservation International.

Joshua Dewain Foster

Contributing Editor

Joshua Dewain Foster is a homegrown writer of the Intermountain West, almost always existing in southeastern Idaho on the family farm and ranch, but also having voyaged for community and education to premiere creative enclaves: the University of Arizona (MFA ’08), the University of Houston (PhD ’19), Stanford University (Stegner Fellow ’12), and BYU-Idaho (’06); has published his short stories and essays in various literary journals, magazines, and zines including Tin House, Fugue, South Loop Review, DIAGRAM, and many more; been awarded and nominated for awards, grants, and fellowships by the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Inprint Houston, Stanford University, and the Association of Mormon Letters; as well as having edited for various publications, gratefully starting back in 2008 as Terrain.org’s first section editor, but also in the last decade with Gulf Coast and DIAGRAM and on Terrain.org’s Editorial Board. Currently, Josh lives in Idaho with the poet Georgia Pearle and her children and their many pets, working and writing about the unique arid West and its dusty, wind-blown people. Connect with him on social media or visit his website joshuadewainfoster.com to check out his latest.

Ken Pirie

Contributing Editor

Ken Pirie has been an urban designer and planner for 25 years. As a principal with Walker Macy Landscape Architects and Planners, he enjoys work that aims to carefully mesh human and natural communities across the West, with socially and ecologically responsible town and campus planning. Rooted in Portland, Oregon, he likes to explore the Northwest by hiking, mountaineering, and driving aimlessly. With Simmons Buntin, he co-authored Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places (Planetizen Press, 2013).