Contributors
September 2022
Writers
Elizabeth Bradfield lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a naturalist, teaches at Brandeis University, and runs Broadsided Press.
moreSteve Edwards is the author of the memoir Breaking into the Backcountry, a story of solitude and wilderness along the Rogue River in Oregon. He lives in Littleton, Massachusetts.
moreTracy Frisch finds joy and wonder in her expansive food gardens and advocates for pollution reduction in Upstate New York.
moreJacquelyn Gill is a high-school dropout, scientist, and climate advocate who lives in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a. She once lost the title of Mainer of the Year to Susan Collins and is still mad about it.
moreK.T. Landon works at a biomedical-research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of the poetry collection Orange, Dreaming and finds inspiration with surprising frequency at the grocery store.
moreAlison Luterman’s latest book of poetry is In the Time of Great Fires. She lives, writes, and teaches in Oakland, California, and all over the world on Zoom.
moreAlison McGhee lives a seminomadic life with her family and her dog, Paco, who bangs his paw on the keyboard to tell her when it’s time to stop writing for the day.
moreBruce McKay lives in California in a little house full of books. His fiction has appeared in The Southern Review and ZYZZYVA.
moreRiver Reyes is the pseudonym of an author who writes about small creatures, weird ecologies, big landscapes, and the people who love them.
moreJohn Paul Scotto is writing a novel about neurodivergence, sexual repression, and high-school football. (scotto.writing@gmail.com)
moreMorgan Talty lives in Maine and is a citizen of the Penobscot Nation. His first book, the short-story collection Night of the Living Rez, was published this year.
morePhotographers
Karyna Aslanova’s work has appeared in BROAD and F-Stop. She lives in the UK, where she enjoys cosplay and badminton.
moreCameron Bloch worked as an Associated Press photographer, writer, and editor for more than forty years. He lives in New York City.
moreF. Brian Ferguson is a photojournalist in West Virginia whose work has appeared in The New York Times and Harper’s Magazine. He is currently a whitewater-rafting photographer at the New River Gorge, the nation’s newest national park.
moreRachele Gabrielli is a photographer who lives in Rome, Italy. You can follow her on Instagram: @87rachele.
moreMichael Galinsky is a filmmaker, photographer, and musician who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His latest project is an ESPN+ series about the Savannah Bananas.
moreTroyce Hoffman is a photographer based in Truckee, California.
moreTom Hogeback is a photographer, gallery owner, and picture framer who lives outside of Oxford, Ohio.
moreKellie Klein is a photographer and educator from the Midwest.
moreMarilyn Lemmon is a retired cancer researcher enjoying the alpine life in Mount Shasta, California.
moreCaroline Nicola was a forest squatter for five years after graduating from college. Now she lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she works as a massage therapist.
moreCapers Rumph lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she is a full-time farmer and part-time photographer.
moreTasha Thomas works in the film industry as a scenic artist and lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
moreCole Thompson lives in Laporte, Colorado. He photographs exclusively in black-and-white.
moreOn The Cover

Naomi Stolow recently left a long e-commerce career in London for a better life deep in the UK countryside. She lives in an ancient milking parlor and loves taking pictures of wildlife, nature, and, occasionally, people. She took the photo on this month’s cover in Dawlish, UK, a seaside town known for its black swans.
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