Earth
The first of three linked print anthologies that offer a doorway connecting scientific thought to community action
Our first anthology, Earth, explores the ways in which people relate to and interact with our planet through intergenerational and everyday habits. From walking alongside the ocean considering the lives and impacts of the horseshoe crab to trekking the Nilgiri mountains on a traditional ritual walk, this collection of poems and essays dwells on climate change, colonization, and geological time. The pieces are deeply intimate and analytical proposals for how we can continue to engage with the earth meaningfully, through care and attention.
Azucena Sanchez is a media artist from Mexico City, based in Munich. Her artistic practice explores the intersection of life, science, and technology. Her work includes bio media, tech sculpture, multimedia, and site-specific installations that have been featured in international group exhibitions across Germany, Italy, and Mexico.
She draws inspiration from nature, but her artistic process goes beyond mere observation. For her, it is a collaborative effort that involves working alongside living and non-living organisms to explore their potential as interconnected entities and create new dialogues of resilience in the face of social and ecological crises.
Through her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, Monisha Raman aims to trace the unseen connections between people and the land. She is the author of The Highlands of Yore (Readomania, 2025), which is also forthcoming in the USA and Canada by Running Wild Press (June 2026). Her essays and short stories have appeared in various literary and ecological magazines. She is an alumnus of the Granta Writers’ Workshop in nature writing.
Ebba Zajmi is an interdisciplinary writer and artist working in a diaspora between the Balkans and the Bronx. Their creative practice aims to deconstruct the family home as a bodymind, intergenerational patterns in failing surveillance states, and interclass, cross-cultural contact in public and private spaces. Zajmi has contributed work to No, Dear Magazine, Image Text Ithaca Press, Essex Flowers Gallery, Bulevard Art and Media Institute (Albania), the Bibliowicz Family Gallery (Cornell University), and more. They hold an MFA in Image Text (2022), completed the Creative Publishing Seminar at the Center for Book Arts (2021) and they are an MFA Candidate in Nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College.
Ravneet K. Sandhu currently lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband. Her short stories have been published in The Offing, Gordon Square Review and Roots Quarterly.
Wailea Zülch works in the field of futures studies as a curator and writer, operating at the intersections of analysis and imagination, time and space. With a background shaped by transit across cultures and disciplines, she explores themes of interconnection, rootedness, and transformation through multisensory, transdisciplinary approaches. Her work often bridges the abstract and the tangible, with a strong focus on emerging narratives.
Carola Wille (*1990) studied communication design at Stuttgart State Academy of Arts and Design and works now as independently as an illustrator and in garden projects.
Aaron Ellison is a Boston-based photographer, sculptor, writer, and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus in Ecology at Harvard University. His research and artistic practice focus on the disintegration and reassembly of ecosystems following natural and anthropogenic disturbances.
Eric Zeigler is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Toledo. His research and artistic practice interrogate the underpinnings of the history of the photographic process by purposefully exploiting problematic contemporary Western cultural categorizations and presumptions that are placed on photographic and lens-based imagery.
Working together, Eric + Aaron explore unknown worlds beyond our current understanding. Their joint work currently centers on non-anthropocentric/posthumanist aesthetics and creative photodocumentation of forests and deep time. Their most recent photo-book is instability: Photographs of the Unexpected (Snap Collective, 2024).
Kelly Clancy is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor focused on politics and culture. She is the author of two books, Democracy: A Love Letter (2024) and The Politics of GMOS in the United States and Europe (2015) and a variety of outlets including The Thread and Oh Reader, as well as academic outlets.
Cindy A. Velasquez, PhD is a professor at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, Philippines. She has edited the anthology Dagat ug Kinabuhi: Translating Contemporary Cebuano Poetry (Sea and Life) and wrote an illustrated children’s book series on the ethnomedicinal practices and knowledge of the indigenous Ati community in eastern Cebu Province. Her first book Lawas (Body) was published in 2016, while her second one, Your Soul is Home: A Collection of Photo Haiku in Tokyo and Yamagata, was released in 2022. Translated by Alton Melvar M. Dapanas into English, her works appeared in Asymptote, Jill! A Women+ in Translation Reading Series, and The Oxford Anthology of Translation, and forthcoming from Modern Poetry in Translation and Channel Magazine. An alumna of several fellowships in creative writing and art criticism, she received a National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) grant for Basabalak Kanunay, the poetry podcast she produces and hosts which features Binisaya-language poets. Also a performance poet and lyricist, Dr. Velasquez and her co-composer Jude Gitamondoc won the 43rd Gawad Urian Awards for Best Music for the song “Usaka Libo ug Usa ka Panamilit” (A Thousand and One Goodbyes) in 2020.
Alton Melvar M. Dapanas (they/them), essayist, poet, and translator from the southern Philippines, is the author of M of the Southern Downpours (Australia: Downingfield Press, 2024), In the Name of the Body: Lyric Essays (Canada: Wrong Publishing, 2023), and Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems (UK: Newcomer Press, 2021). Their works—published from South Africa to Japan, France to Singapore, and translated into Chinese, Damiá, and Swedish—appeared in World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sant Jordi Festival of Books, and the anthologies Infinite Constellations (University of Alabama Press) and He, She, They, Us: Queer Poems (Pan Macmillan UK). They currently serve as editor-at-large at Asymptote and assistant nonfiction editor at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature. Formerly with Creative Nonfiction magazine, they’ve been nominated to The Best Literary Translations and twice to the Pushcart Prize for their lyric essays.
Olga Bubich is a former ICORN Fellow originally from Belarus now based in Berlin. She is an essayist with the focus on the subject of memory, visual artist, lecturer, and the author of two photobooks and one book of short prose.
