Each of our contributors passionately specialize in environmental, social justice and sustainability, and have worked hard for years to build hope for the future.
Isabella Cabral is a rising senior at Whittier College, graduating in December 2026 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Social Work. Originally from Albuquerque, she now lives in Whittier, California, where she swims competitively for Whittier College. Outside of writing, she's an avid marathon runner, poet, and true crime enthusiast.
Haley Campbell is a river guide, writer, trail builder, and winemaker. In all of her work, she strives to facilitate a connection with and appreciation for the natural world through deep immersion into specific places. She splits her time between the Pacific Northwest and Italy, where her partner is based.
Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, New York Review Books, Longreads.com, Paris Review online and dozens of other places. Her essay on food insecurity was published in Best American Food Writing 2019. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California’s Creative Writing Program. Chadburn is a worker lover and through her own work and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she's basically been doing that ever since.
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Natalie Cherot, PhD, is a Ventura, California-based writer, researcher and social scientist. She is currently writing a book about wrongful conviction.
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Henry Cherry lives in Hollywood, California. He works as a teacher and a journalist. You can see more of his work here.
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Robin Clarke (she/her) is a writer, psychotherapist, and holistic energy worker. Her first book of poems, Lines The Quarry, won the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize for Poetry. With the poet Sten Carlson, she co-authored a chapbook of poems entitled Lives of the Czars (nonpolygon, 2011). An excerpt from her memoir, Those Little Anodynes, won the Tupelo Open Prose award. Her poems and prose have been published in Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, LABOR, Puerto del Sol, Tupelo Quarterly, Verse, Vox Populi, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in a garden-based co-housing community in Pittsburgh. Read more about Clarke at her website.
Jennifer Clement is President Emerita of PEN International and the only woman to hold the office of President (2015-2021) since the organization was founded in 1921. Clement is the author the novels A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates, Prayers for the Stolen and Gun Love as well as several poetry books. Clement also wrote the acclaimed memoir Widow Basquiat on New York City in the early 1980’s and the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Marianne Combs spent 25 years reporting for Minnesota Public Radio News before becoming an independent journalist. She was named 2020 Journalist of the Year by the Minnesota chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists, and has won multiple awards for her investigative reporting. In 2022 she co-founded the Center for Broadcast Journalism, an organization dedicated to equipping a new generation of diverse reporters with the tools and connections they need to succeed. She lives in St. Paul.
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Benedict Cosgrove was managing editor for the pioneering websites Netizen and FEED, and helped launch the National Magazine Award–winning photography site, LIFE.com. He is the editor of two anthologies, Covering the Bases and Gluttony, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Daily Beast, and others. He lives with his family in New York City. For more, visit his website.
Beau Coursen graduated from Bunker Hill Community College (yes, the one from Good Will Hunting) before matriculating to Emerson College to pursue a BFA in Creative Writing. Currently, he is pursuing interdisciplinary mediums at The Paris College of Art – melding fiction, poetry, and drawing into one craft.
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We publish deeply reported journalism focusing on environmental, sustainability and social justice issues. Our goal is to bring you difference-making work that provokes discussions, inspires reflection and speaks to the times with stories that prove timeless.
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Tracy McCartney
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Joe Donnelly
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Phuong-Cac “PC” Nguyen
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Nancy Hope
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