LIS McLOUGHLIN holds a BS in Civil Engineering, an MEd in Education, and a PhD in Science and Technology Studies. Her published writing include academic articles, poems, personal essays, a stage performance, and book chapters. Lis founded and directs NatureCulture, Writing the Land, and the Authors and Artists Festival and Poetry Retreat. She edits and publishes anthologies and other books through NatureCulture LLC. She lives off-grid in Northfield, Massachusetts and part-time in Montréal, Québec.

ELIZABETH M. BURTON-CROW, PhD grew up exploring the forests of the Sierra Nevada foothills alongside her feathered and four-legged kin. A profound love for Nature led her to study the field of Ecopsychology, culminating in a doctoral dissertation focusing upon the influence of captivity upon the psyches of parrots and poultry. Today, Elizabeth’s work strives to expand the frontiers of Ecopsychology by illuminating the often-unconscious forces underlying cross-species relationships through the integration of ethics, art, and science. Today she is rooted in the Pacific Northwest, with extended family including donkeys, dogs, llamas, chickens, goats, rabbits, and parrots.

Jasra Holsberg uses her BS in Computer Science and her creativity to pick apart tangled problems, and invent new creations in the digital and physical worlds. She has used her considerable design talents for such diverse projects as Arisia Corporate and Convention sites, role-playing worlds, Writing the Land, NatureCulture, and knitting hats for soup kitchens and shelters.

Jasra lives in Reading, MA with her people and 2 cats. They have a greenhouse, plus lots of container gardens which provide food and flowers for our enjoyment. The kittens arrived on 10/30, right before Halloween, and have been a delight every day!

David Crews is a writer and editor who resides at the edge of the Hoosic river watershed in the Vermont valley, ancestral land of Muhheaconneok and western Abenaki peoples. He cares for work that explores land and place, wild(er)ness, preservation, nonviolence. Published books include Incantation, a limited edition handmade chapbook of poems designed and produced by Josh Dannin of Directangle Press (2022), Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks (Ra Press, 2018), and High Peaks (Ra Press, 2015)—a poetry collection that catalogs hiking the “Adirondack 46ers” in upstate New York. Hoosic River: A poem is forthcoming in 2025 with NatureCulture. Find David and his work at davidcrewspoetry.com.