Emergence Magazine Vol. 5

Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of environmental studies and geosciences at Lawrence University. She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times and the author of Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. A Geological Society of America fellow and Fulbright alumna, Marcia has been named Outstanding Educator by the Association of Women Geoscientists. Her latest book is Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks.

James Bridle is a writer, artist, and technologist whose artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Barbican, Artangel, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and the Istanbul Design Biennial. James is the author of New Dark Age, which has been translated into over a dozen languages; and Ways of Being. Their writing on literature, culture, and networks has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The New Statesman, The Guardian, and The Financial Times, among others. For BBC Radio 4, they wrote and presented the four-part series New Ways of Seeing.

Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, his works have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Best American Poetry, The Best of Net, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Forward Book of Poetry Anthology. The author of the poetry collection Burying the Mountain, he is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

David Farrier is a professor of literature and the environment at the University of Edinburgh, where he also leads an Environmental Humanities research network. His current research is in literary responses to environmental change and the Anthropocene. His books include Anthropocene Poetics; Postcolonial Asylum; Unsettled Narratives; and Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, which was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Giles St. Aubyn Award for nonfiction. David’s work has also appeared in Aeon, The Atlantic, and Lit Hub. His latest book is Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet.

David Hinton has published numerous books of poetry and essays, and many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy, all informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking. He is the first person in over a century to translate into English all four of the Chinese philosophical masterworks—Tao Te Ching, Analects of Confucius, Mencius, and Chuang Tzu. His translations have earned him the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Landon Translation Award, and the PEN American Translation Award. David recently received a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Wild Mind, Wild Earth. “Breath-Space and Seed-Time” is part of a forthcoming book entitled Orient.

Jane Hirshfield is a poet, essayist, and translator whose poetry collections include Given Sugar, Given Salt, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; After, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and named “best book of 2006” by The Washington Post and others; The Beauty, Ledger, and most recently, The Asking. Recognitions include Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and the Hall-Kenyon Prize in American Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. In 2004, Jane was awarded the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by The Academy of American Poets. And in 2019, she was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw novelist, essayist, poet, and environmentalist. She is author of Mean Spirit, winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and the Mountains and Plains Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book of essays, The Radiant Lives of Animals, won the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award.

Nick Hunt is a writer, journalist, and storyteller. His books include Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes, Walking the Woods and the Water, Where the Wild Winds Are, The Parakeeting of London, and Red Smoking Mirror. His writing has also appeared in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Economist, Aeon, New Internationalist, Noema, Literary Review, and Resurgence & Ecologist, among others, and has been included in The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century. Nick is a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society Journey of a Lifetime Award and is a contributor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project.

Sam Laughlin is a Bristol-based visual artist, mainly utilizing large format black-and-white photography, who draws inspiration from the patterns and cycles of nature. His work has been exhibited in several galleries across England and Ireland, and he is the recipient of the Hariban Juror’s Choice Award.

Robert Moor is a writer and journalist based in British Columbia. He is the author of On Trails, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award, the Saroyan International Prize, and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. A graduate of Brown University and the Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism at NYU, he has written for The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New York Times, GQ, Harper’s, Granta, Outside, n+1, and other publications. He is currently working on a book entitled In Trees.

Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and Sierra Magazine. She is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, a New York Times bestseller; and Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock. Her visual work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Marjorie Barrick Museum, Les Rencontres D’Arles, and Fotomuseum Antwerpen. She has been an artist in residence at the Internet Archive, the Recology dump in San Francisco, and the Montalvo Arts Center and has taught digital art at Stanford University.

Roger Reeves is the author of Dark Days: Fugitive Essays and the poetry collections King Me, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award; and Best Barbarian, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. His essays have appeared in Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, among others. Roger is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and two Pushcart Prizes, and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ed Roberson is a contemporary poet whose works include To See the Earth Before the End of the World and Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. His honors include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lila Wallace Writers’ Award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award.

Paul Salopek is an award-winning journalist who is currently on a years-long journey retracing the path of the earliest Homo sapiens on foot from the Horn of Africa toward the tip of South America. Paul has been recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes, the George Polk Award, the National Press Club Award, and the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage in Journalism, and his foreign correspondence has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The American Scholar. He has been a McGraw Visiting Professor at Princeton University and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation.

Evie Shockley is a literary scholar and poet. Her books of poetry include a half-red sea, 31 words * prose poems, The Gorgon Goddess, and the new black, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her collection semiautomatic was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; other recognitions include the Holmes National Poetry Prize, the Lannan Poetry Prize, the Stephen Henderson Award, and the 2023 Shelley Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation, New America, Brilliant Corners, and the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Evie is a professor at Rutgers University, where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher who has specialized in dreamwork and Jungian psychology. He is the author of numerous books on Sufism and spiritual responsibility in our present time of transition, including For Love of the Real and Seasons of the Sacred, and editor of the anthology Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth. His most recent book is Seeding the Future: A Deep Ecology of Consciousness.

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He is the founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World and Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking and a carver of traditional tools and weapons. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to address complex issues and global crises.