Kelly Terwilliger is a poet, oral storyteller and maker of art who grew up in a family of biologists. Her work in its various forms delights in multivocality, dialogue, and wonder—that mingling of curiosity and awe which engenders both questions you can answer and questions you cannot. Her current collaboration with fellow creator, Eve Muller, is an inquiry into belonging. It begins with skinny-dipping in various wild bodies of water over the course of a year. Kelly initially started clambering into wild water out of a desire to feel more alive in a place, to become more than just an observer. This led to questions: what does it mean to be connected to a place? To one’s own life? To belong in it? Through written reflections on the intimate (and often chilly) physical experience and the history and ecology of a place, Kelly and Eve are exploring different ways of answering these questions. They are also tracing a friendship and the way two different people navigate vulnerability and belonging. Kelly is the author of two collections of poems, with a third coming out this year. She is also the author of a forthcoming work that uses images to “translate” a poem, and then further expands on the visual “translation” with a series of reflections formatted as “endnotes.” Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in the United States, Canada, and Britain. She lives and works in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband and an occasional bear. @kelly.terwilliger