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Shaping Destiny, Volume VIII, Issue II About Place Journal, October 2024 cover featuring pencil drawing of a bald eagle

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Issue and managing editor: Michael McDermott

Contributing editors: Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jacqueline Johnson, Richard Cambridge, Pamela Uschuk

Assistant editors: Kate Sutter and Ellie Coleman

Layout editor: Jesse Hughes

Web development: Creature Works

Cover artwork: Ledale Williams, Eagle

Shaping Destiny Reading Series
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Strange Wests, Volume VIII, Issue IV About Place Journal, June 2024 cover featuring the letters STRANGE WESTS filled with ephemera from a collage: magazine beauty photos, a ukulele, white yarn, on top of a light peach background
The More-Than-Human World, Volume VII, Issue IV, About Place Journal, October 2023 cover featuring a delicate, realistic drawing of a grayscale fox eyeing orange persimmons, isolated on a white background
About Place Journal, On Rivers cover featuring artwork by Stephanie Heit
About Place Journal, Center of Gravity cover featuring artwork by Natiq Jalil
About Place Journal, Navigations: A Place for Peace cover featuring artwork by Dustin Illetewahke Mater
Volume VI Issue IV When We Are Lost / How We Are Found cover
Geographies of Justice cover - Volume VI, Issue III, May 2021 - About Place Journal
Works of Resistance, Resilience cover – Volume VI, Issue II, About Place Journal, October 2020 – Edited by Jacqueline Johnson
Practices of Hope cover – Volume VI, Issue I, About Place Journal, May 2020 – Edited by Petra Kuppers and DJ Lee
About Place Journal - Infinite Country cover
Dignity as an Endangered Species in the 21st Century cover
Issue V, Volume II: Roots and Resistance, About Place Journal text overlay on photo of a protest
man in a hoodie holding a wild rabbit in front of a fiery landscape / Rewilding / Edited by Tammy Melody Gomez
Political Landscapes – About Place Journal
About Place Journal SOUTH cover image
Animals Among Us
Reimagine Everything Differently
The Future Imagined Differently
Primal Paradox
Earth, Spirit, Society
Enlightened Visions
Civil Rights 1963-2013
The Future of Water
Earth, Spirit, Society
Trees
Wall Street
Peaks & Valleys
Rust Belt Tales cover
I.I. A River Runs Through Us

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