Our Editors

Allen Braden

Assistant Poetry Editor

Allen Braden was the last generation to work his family’s farm outside White Swan, Washington, on the Yakama Indian Reservation. He is the author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood (University of Georgia) and Elegy in the Passive Voice (University of Alaska/Fairbanks). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Artist Trust of Washington State as well as the Emerging Writers Prize from Witness magazine, the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Midnight Sun Chapbook Prize, the Dana Award in Poetry, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and other honors. His poems have been anthologized in The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Poetry: An Introduction, Best New Poets, and Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry. He has published in Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, Orion, Georgia Review, Colorado Review, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Threepenny Review, and Southern Review. A former editor of Literary Salt, he teaches at Tacoma Community College and volunteers for AWP’s Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program.

Simmons Buntin

Editor-in-Chief and Director, Terrain Publishing

Though Simmons Buntin’s terrain has varied from the scrub oak hammocks of central Florida to the thorny scarps of the Sonoran Desert, his path seems always directed by the pursuit of an elegant balance between the built and natural environments. He has published poetry, essays, and technical articles in publications as varied as Edible Baja Arizona, North American Review, Kyoto Journal, and Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. He has a master’s degree in 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. Simmons migrated from energy services program manager for the U.S. Department of Energy to marketing and communications manager the University of Arizona’s College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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. Catch up with him at www.SimmonsBuntin.com.

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.

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., though there have been lengthy escapes to Denver and Ithaca, New York, perhaps her favorite home and geography of all.

She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, Iron Horse Literary Review’s Discovered Voices Award, Chautauqua’s Flash Writing Prize, and Terrain.org’s Nonfiction Prize. Her essays have appeared most recently in The Georgia Review and the anthology Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, among other places. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Elizabeth Jacobson

Reviews Editor

Elizabeth Jacobson, originally from New York, found her way to New Mexico over 30 years ago, and remains captivated by the diversity of its wide-ranging national forests and expanses of open land. She lives in a river canyon at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Santa Fe. Her most recent book, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air, won the New Measure Poetry Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2019), and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book. She is an Academy of American Poets 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow and the Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been published in the American Poetry Review, On The Seawall, Orion, Ploughshares, Plume, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere. She is the founding director of the WingSpan Poetry Project, a nonprofit which since 2013 has conducted weekly poetry classes in battered family and homeless shelters in New Mexico, and which has been supported by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Elizabeth teaches poetry and ecopoetics workshops regularly in New Mexico communities.

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.

Anne Haven McDonnell

Assistant Poetry Editor

Anne Haven McDonnell grew up exploring mountains from her home in Boulder, Colorado. Now she explores the high desert and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lives and teaches as an associate professor of English and creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In addition to English and Creative Writing classes, Anne teaches a course on climate justice and has worked with students on several sustainability projects on campus. In 2018, Anne also taught poetry for the Orion Environmental Writing Workshop. Her poetry has been published in Orion, The American Journal of Poetry, The Georgia Review, Nimrod Journal, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, About Place Journal, Tar River, Terrain.org, Whitefish Review, Fourth River, and elsewhere. Her poems won Terrain.org’s 5th Annual Contest in Poetry, have been nominated for a Pushcart prize and Best of the Net, and are included in Nature and Environmental Writing: A Craft Guide and Anthology. Anne has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers’ Residency and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

Nick Neely

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

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.

Miranda Perrone

Podcast Editor

Miranda Perrone is a writer, philosopher, map-maker, and outdoor educator with an MS in Environmental Science and Policy from Northern Arizona University and a BA in Philosophy and Environmental Ethics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a Wyss Scholar, she focuses on applying these diverse skills to conservation in the American West. Issues related to climate change, animal rights, and the preservation of wild places are of particular interest to Miranda, whose work seeks to connect and inspire those alive today to advocate for socioecological change.

Melissa L. Sevigny

Interviews Editor

Melissa L. Sevigny grew up in Tucson, Arizona. 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. Her books are Mythical River, a work of nonfiction (University of Iowa Press, 2016), and Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets (The University of Arizona Press, 2016). 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 & Technology Reporter for KNAU. She enjoys hiking, fishing, and taking road trips.

Derek Sheffield

Poetry Editor and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Derek Sheffield’s collection, Not for Luck (Michigan State University Press, 2021), won the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize judged by Mark Doty. His other books include Through the Second Skin (Orchises Press, 2013), finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and A Revised Account of the West (Flyway, 2008), winner of the Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook Award judged by Debra Marquart. With Simmons Buntin and Elizabeth Dodd, he is coeditor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity University Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Southern Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, Orion, The Gettysburg Review, and AGNI. He has been awarded fellowships from the Spring Creek Project, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Artist Trust, 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 likes to bird, hike, botanize, fish, and forest bathe. 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.

Chandre Szafran

Assistant Nonfiction Editor

Uvaŋa Iqugan Inupiatun, suli Alaskamiuguruŋa. Iñuruuŋalu savaktuŋalu Inupiat nunaŋanni. Chandre is grateful to call a particularly stunning area of Alaska her motherlands. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction from the Low-Residency Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She’s forever indebted to have learned a wee bit from an Inupiaq language expert, who told her that the force of the universe, which she always suspected exists, is indeed real. She figures the best that us contemporary humans can hope for is to notice it, in the hearts and minds of people all around us, and in the places that reveal it to us. She is honored to have been awarded the inaugural New Poets of Native Nations Scholarship for Women; to serve on the board for the Thunderbird Summer Series pop-up by IAIA MFA graduates in summer 2020; and to assist in editing nonfiction at Terrain.org, where she recognizes that she’s got her work cut out for her, boy howdy, in the White-dominated spaces of conservation, environment, literary journals, and publishing. (White-dominated only in recent history, however. The ancestors might have had a chuckle about that, so luckily for all us writerly-readerly humans, her ears are all perked up listening for their whispers.)

Juniper White

Broadside Editor

Juniper White 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.

Zoë Calhoun

Contributing Editor

Zoë Calhoun was raised in the desert of Tucson, Arizona. In May 2014, she graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas as a double major in Spanish and digital writing and photography. A few months later, she permanently relocated to Madrid, Spain to teach English and travel. She discovered her passion for Spanish culture and bicycles, both of which fill her everyday life. Zoë writes for Volata, a bicycle magazine based out of Barcelona, and works as a freelance translator. When she’s not pedaling through pueblos, she can be spotted in a plaza in Madrid sipping on Spanish vermouth with friends.

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).

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 North American Review 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 Crude: Poems and Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. He’s at work on books related to the Bakken oil boom, family trauma, and diabetes.

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. His new book Facts and Figures is available from Hoot ‘n’ Waddle. Previous books include The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which was named a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award, and 88 Maps. His first collection of creative nonfiction, Accidental Gardens, is forthcoming from Stormbird 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.

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.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Editorial Board Member and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

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.

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.

Suzanne Frischkorn

Editorial Board Member

Poet Suzanne Frischkorn was born in Hialeah, Florida. She spent a brief part of her childhood in Pennsylvania, but for the most part was raised in New York. She currently resides in Connecticut with her family and a Havanese pup named Milo. She is the author of Lit Windowpane, Girl on a Bridge, and five chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Indiana Review, Juked, Ms. Magazine, North American Review, Verse Daily, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity University Press, 2020), and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writer’s Center for her book Lit Windowpane, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

Renata Golden

Editorial Board Member and Terrain Publishing Board of Directors Member

Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Renata Golden discovered the American Southwest at age 18 when she stuck out her thumb on the Stevenson Expressway and ended up in Phoenix. Now the owner of an international technical writing company, Renata has authored several books on data center and cloud computing published by HP/HPE Press. Somewhere along the way she earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston, where she studied with Junot Diaz, Mary Gaitskill, Lucy Greeley, Adam Zagajewski, and Mark Doty. Renata is active in the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) in addition to the always exciting Association of Test Publishers (ATP). Renata currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she has taught at the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) and is working on a collection of essays about the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeastern Arizona. To read more, visit renatagolden.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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.