VOICES
Publisher
BRETT WILLIAM is a photographic artist, writer, publisher, and curator drawn to our (dis)connection to the living world. He currently resides in the Green River Valley between Vermont & Massachusetts. Find him at heybrettwilliam.xhbtr.com
Editor
DAVID CREWS is a writer, editor, and wilderness advocate who currently resides in southern Vermont / ancestral lands of Mohican and Abenaki peoples. He cares for work that engages a reconnection to land and place, wilderness, preservation, nonviolence. Find him and his work at davidcrewspoetry.com
Editor
BIRCH MALOTKY is a writer and editor with one foot in the Rocky Mountain West and one foot in the wild Northeast. Currently pursuing an MFA in Laramie, Wyoming, Birch writes at the intersection of science, conservation and recreation. She thinks a lot about home and how we make it.
Editor
JENNA ROZELLE is a wild foods educator, writer, and outdoor enthusiast. She offers guidance to people and businesses who want to safely and ethically incorporate wild foods into their lives. She lives in southwestern Maine, where she and her husband care for their homestead and plant nursery Thickery Pricket Farm. Find her at jennarozelle.com
JOHN TULLY is a north country New Hampshire-based documentary photographer. He is frequently on assignment for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. “Shifting Sands,” his work documenting the effects of climate change, was published online by National Geographic and received a grant by the Duke Archive of Documentary Arts. Find him at johntullyphoto.com
CRISTIAN ORDÓÑEZ is a Chilean artist working within the mediums of photography, graphic design and printed matter. His photography explores the parallels between ideas such as memory and belonging, territory and architecture, vernacular and mundane. These themes are presented through photographing landscape, urban structures, portraiture and abstraction. He works as an independent graphic designer, art director and photographer, and currently lives in Toronto where he teaches in the design faculty at OCAD University. Find him at cristianordonez.com
Editorial Council
LAURA WATERMAN is an author, environmentalist, and outdoor enthusiast who lives in East Corinth, VT. She is a founding member of the alpine conservation nonprofit The Waterman Fund. Her books include The Green Guide to Low-Impact Hiking and Camping, Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness, Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Yankee Rock & Ice: A History of Climbing in the Northeastern United States,, her memoir, Losing the Garden, and a novel, Starvation Shore. A second memoir, Calling Wild Places Home, is forthcoming.
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CMARIE FUHRMAN is author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020) and co-editor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). She has poetry and nonfiction forthcoming / in Emergence Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, Cutthroat a Journal of the Arts, Whitefish Review, Platform Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She is a regular columnist for Inlander, translations editor for Broadsided Press, nonfiction editor for High Desert Journal, and director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. She also teaches in the low residency MFA Program at Western Colorado University and is 2021-23 Idaho Writer in Residence (photograph by Brad Orstead). Find her at cmariefuhrman.com
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HYPERION ÇACA YVAIRE is the Terran Shield and Community Conservation Co-Director for the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (NEFOC). He is an Afro-Indigenous territorial scholar-practitioner studying the afterlives of collision through planetary science, political geoecology, and the arts. He is primarily invested in stimulating and uplifting an infrastructure that supports a rich and imaginative solidarity between lifeways, and honoring the varied traditions of relating sustainably to the world around us through non-industrial agroecology, agriculture, silviculture, aquaculture, etc. that have been historically side-lined by imperialist design.
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CHRISTINE LUCKASAVITCH is an Omàmìwininì Madaoueskarini Anishinaabekwe (a woman of the Madawaska River Algonquin people) and belongs to the Crane Clan. She is currently studying for her Masters of Arts in Indigenous Studies at Trent University. Christine is the owner / executive consultant of Waaseyaa Consulting and Waaseyaa Cultural Tours, two small businesses dedicated to reviving and celebrating Indigenous traditional knowledge and culture-based practices through educational opportunities. She is also executive director of Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit dedicated to providing educating about Indigenous peoples, territories and knowledge systems across the world. Find more information at waaseyaaconsulting.ca and native-land.ca.
ABBEY MEAKER is a lens-based artist whose work explores the phenomena of light and matter and the influences that inform the feeling of a particular place. She is the studio director for Richard Erdman, founder of Artist Field, and co-founder of Another Earth Books. She lives and works in Vermont. Find her at abbeymariemeaker.com
JOE KOPERA spent thirteen years as the chief mapping geologist and chief cartographer for the Massachusetts Geological Survey, falling in love with New England's geology, landscape, and beauty. Find him at joemaps.com
HANNAH STEPHENSON is a poet, writer, editor, and instructor living in Columbus, Ohio. She is the author of Cadence (winner of the 2016 Ohio Chapbook Prize from the Wick Poetry Center) and In the Kettle, the Shriek, and was series co-editor of New Poetry from the Midwest (in 2017 and 2019). Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, 32 Poems, Vela, The Journal, Verse Daily, and Poetry Daily. Find her at thestorialist.com
AARON MAIR of Schenectady, New York, served as the 57th President of the National Sierra Club. A retired epidemiological-spatial analyst with the New York State Department of Health, Mair's experience includes more than three decades of environmental activism and over twenty-five years as a Sierra Club wilderness volunteer leader, where he has worked diligently for environmental justice. He recently joined the Adirondack Council to direct a "Forever Adirondack Campaign" to protect clean water, jobs, and wilderness.
MELODY MACKIN is an educator, activist, artist, and citizen of the Elnu Abenaki Band of Ndakinna. She holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Vermont (photograph by Bear Cieri / UVM). Melody also served as Elnu Abenaki Tribe Representative to the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs for two terms. She is a traditional beadworker and finger weaver.
STEPHANIE RUTHERFORD, Ph.D, is a professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University who thinks and writes about animal studies and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Governing the Wild and of Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada, forthcoming in 2022.
NANCY FLETCHER began telling make-believe stories with her grandmother at dawn when she was five. After a career starting and running a public relations company then a video production company (respectively), she returned to her roots to run a non-profit that has empowered over a thousand girls by giving them the chance to improvise instant, original stories on camera. She uses an adapted format invented by her husband, the late David Shepherd, cofounder of professional improv theater.
ETHAN SCHALEKAMP is from Schenectady County, New York and currently studies physical therapy at Boston University. He works at REI and as a freelance photographer, enjoys rock climbing and time in the mountains with friends, and hopes to continue using his voice for wilderness advocacy.
CAMERON BLAIS is a writer from Lincoln, Rhode Island. He holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and is hard at work on his first novel.
TANIA AEBI is a freelance writer living in Corinth, Vermont who, in November 1987, at the age of twenty-one, returned to New York City from a solo-circumnavigation of 27,000 miles around the world on her Contessa 26. With just a cat for company she crossed the Caribbean, the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the North Atlantic, stopping in twenty-three countries along the way. She narrated this journey in her autobiography, Maiden Voyage.
KATHERINE ENGLISHMAN is a Maine-based writer and outdoor lover. Her work is centered equally around outdoor recreation and how to do so responsibly to help preserve the same beauty and joy for future generations. A passionate skier, hiker, surfer, and yoga teacher—she loves to travel but is happiest at home enjoying the wild places, coastline, and top-notch beer in the Northeast (photo by Meghan Young).
STEVE BAILEY is a product designer working in print and on the web. A former White Mountain wilderness ranger, he continues to get outside via long distance hikes and trail runs. In 2015, he created a "Periodic Table of the White Mountain 4000-Footers" and an accompanying hiking passport in the hope of inspiring kids to get outdoors. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his son, Avens, and wife, Adriana.
EMILY SEGADA serves as manager for operations & communications at Champlain Area Trails, a non-profit organization and an accredited land trust, established in 2009. In its short history CATS has developed 60 miles of trails. Find them at champlainareatrails.com
BRENDAN WILTSE, Ph.D, is a landscape and nature photographer based in Saranac Lake. He is also a limnologist who focuses on studying the impacts of climate change and road salt on Adirondack lakes and rivers. He has recently joined Paul Smith's College as visiting assistant professor with its new Master of Science program, and water quality director with the college’s Adirondack Watershed Institute. Find him at brendanwiltse.com
SOPHI VELTROP serves as outreach coordinator for Northeast Wilderness Trust, a non-profit land trust founded in 2002 to fill the vacant niche of wilderness protection in the Northeast. Their mission is to conserve forever-wild landscapes for nature and people. To date, they have protected more than 41,000 forever-wild acres across New England and New York. Find them at newildernesstrust.org
HILLIE BILLS currently lives in northwestern Maine after having spent her formative years in New York's Adirondack and Hudson Valley regions, and Far West Texas. She quit her professional careers in the performing arts and in the beauty industry due to a chronic illness which she is currently managing with animal-based nutrition and Evolutionary Medicine. For more information about her tallow-based skincare lines, herbal products and handmade traditional crafts, visit GreatNorthernTea.com.