Elementals: Earth, Vol. 1

Hannah Eisler Burnett is an anthropologist whose work focuses on water, property, toxicity, and capital. She is the Jamaica Bay Coastal Resilience Specialist for New York Sea Grant, where she works with New York City’s coastal communities to imagine and build a just climate future. Before that, she was Communications and Editorial Associate for the Center for Humans and Nature. Hannah received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2023.

Kristi Leora Gansworth is Anishinabe-kwe, a scholar, maker, and poet.

Gavin Van Horn is Executive Editor of Humans & Nature Press Books, the author of The Way of Coyote, and the coeditor of City Creatures, Wildness, and the award-winning five-volume series Kinship. He currently resides in the lands of the Northern Chumash people in San Luis Obispo, California, where you can find him wandering the nearby hills and shores, learning the flowers, trying to go light.

Bruce Jennings teaches and writes on ethical and social issues in healthcare at Vanderbilt University. He is Developmental Editor for Humans & Nature Press Books and Senior Fellow at the Center for Humans & Nature. He is author of several books and many articles in the fields of bio-medical ethics, public health, and ecological ethics. Among his books is Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth (2016).

Nickole Brown is the author of Sister and Fanny Says. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she volunteers at several animal sanctuaries. To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a chapbook of poems about these animals, won the 2018 Rattle Prize, and her essay-in-poems, The Donkey Elegies, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020. In 2021, Spruce Books of Penguin Random House published Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire, a book she coauthored with Jessica Jacobs, and they teach generative writing sessions together as part of their SunJune Literary Collaborative.

Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the author of six books of poetry and the coeditor of seven anthologies. He is Professor in the English department at the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa.