Jerri Bartholomew (she/her) is an emeritus Professor of microbiology at Oregon State University and director of the JL Fryer Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory. She is also a glass artist who incorporates ecological and scientific imagery into her art, exploring how art...
Ania Upstill (they/them) is a queer and trans performer, theatre maker, teaching artist and clown. A graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (ProfessionalTraining Program), Ania’s recent work celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists with a focus on...
Throughout her career, Dede Lucia’s paintings has embraced nature culture as the primordial touchstone incorporating all systems of birth, growth, change, and death, fulfilling an existential call to both resistance and acceptance of life’s audacious purpose....
Danielle Shi (she/her) is a writer from Dalian, China. She spent her formative years in Irvine, California, going on to study English at the University of California, Berkeley and the Humanities at the University of Chicago with W.J.T. Mitchell, focusing on Media...
Thomas Dai (he/hime) teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho. His first book, Take My Name but Say It Slow: Essays, will be released in early 2025. His writes primarily about the ambiguities of personal identity and its intersections with ecology, place,...
Edem Soul Music (Edem K. Garro, she/her) is a World-Class Vocalist, Performer & Multi-Instrumentalist currently living in Omaha, Ne. Originally from the East Coast, a large part of her music focuses on the ‘Creative content’ that comes from a place that can only... 