Contributors

Our contributors have generously contributed their reflections, stories, poems, drawings, and photographs out of love for this publication, organization, and community. We’re extremely grateful to them for making this magazine.

Erin Elder is an artist, writer, and curator guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places. Erin lives on ancestral Tiwa lands in central New Mexico, just outside the city of Albuquerque, NM.

C. Marie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020), co-editor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019), and the 2021-2023 Idaho Writer in Residence. She resides in the mountains of West Central Idaho

Carly Fraysier Carly Fraysier received an MFA in Creative Writing/Environment and Natural Resources from the University of Wyoming. She’s the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council. Her writing has appeared in publications including Contra Viento and Western Confluence. She lives in Montana.

Chelsie Begoody is Tsenabahiłnii, born Tséńjíkiní, Áshįįh is her maternal grandfather and Tábąąh is her paternal grandfather. She is an emerging artist who has been creating acrylic art pieces for the past few years. Her art inspiration comes from all her relatives in life, in hopes of resonating with good and empowering feelings.

Hannah Gosnell is a Professor of Geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.

Leeanna Torres is a native daughter of the American Southwest, a Nuevomexicana writer who has worked as an environmental professional throughout the West since 2001. She is currently at work on a creativenon-fiction book manuscript centered-on landscape, culture & querencia.

NMCEWL interviews (p.42) were made possible thanks to the New Mexico Collaborative Zone Grant, a statewide initiative in which philanthropic resources are pooled to inspire creativity and foster innovation within our communities.

Dr. Rene Henery is the California Science Director for Trout Unlimited.

Sam Hinkle is a Colorado Springs native and Communications and Development Director for Quivira. His earliest memory of being outside was at the Venetucci Farm.

Sean McCoy grew up in Arizona and has worked on ranches across the Southwest. In addition to this publication, he edits Contra Viento, a journal of art and literature from Rangelands.

Sunny Dooley is Nihókáá Diiyiin Diné/Earth Surface Divine Person residing in Ní’dishchíí’biłyildiz

Dédeez’á’ Bigháá - Pinetree Valley on the High Ridge. She is a Diné Hozhojii Hané Teller, poet, and organizer of positive possibilities for true change to root.

Zach Withers is a crazy anarchist pig farmer stewarding the land he was born on in central New Mexico.