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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


Volume VII, Issue IV – October 2023


Issue editors: Nickole Brown & Erin Coughlin Hollowell

Assistant editors: Athene Dilke, Michelle Seaman, & Jen Stever

Managing editor: Michael McDermott

Layout editor: Jesse Hughes

Web development: Creature Works

Cover artwork: Rebecca Clark, Fox and Persimmon


The More-Than-Human World Reading Series
Video, list of participants, and links to readings »


  • Brittney Corrigan
    • Suffer
      Fiction

  • Jeff Dunn
    • Basket Stinkhorn with 3 stages of fruiting body
      Photography
    • Armillaria (honey fungus) covered with its spores
      Photography
    • Mysterious Mushrooms
      Photography
    • Skyscrapers
      Photography
    • Yellowstone Puffballs
      Photography

  • Ann Fisher-Wirth
    • Pearl
      Poetry

  • Dan Flattery
    • Constructing the Cow
      Creative Nonfiction

  • Michael Garrigan
    • Dead Elk Wonders Where His Body Is
      Poetry
    • Dead Elk Stares
      Poetry
    • Dead Elk Drifts
      Poetry

  • Kelle Groom
    • Mother
      Creative Nonfiction

  • Kathryn Kirkpatrick
    • Liberation Sow
      Poetry

  • Melissa Kwasny
    • Sleeping with the Deer
      Poetry

  • Nadja Lubiw-Hazard
    • Captive
      Fiction

  • Paula MacKay
    • Wolverines in a Land of Wildfire: An Abecedarian Essay
      Creative Nonfiction & Photography

  • Mariana Mcdonald
    • Put Down
      Fiction

  • Lisa Munniksma
    • Safety in Mushrooms
      Creative Nonfiction

  • Holly Marie Moore
    • Galaxy of Melting Stars (Viewing Instructions)
      Creative Nonfiction

  • Kathy Nelson
    • For a Few Minutes at Spooner Lake, Strangers Gather and No One Thinks about Whose Fault it is, the State of the World
      Poetry

  • Mary Odden
    • Blackberry Killers
      Creative Nonfiction

  • Gretchen Primack
    • Tubercled Blossom
      Poetry
    • What Not Ours
      Poetry

  • Juanita M. Smart
    • Four Ways To Conjure a Beaver
      Poetry
    • “Wayward Bear Safely Removed from Tree on Wood Street”
      Poetry

  • Diane Stone
    • Steller’s Jay
      Poetry
    • A New Phoenix
      Poetry
    • Those Last Twenty Acres
      Poetry

  • Heather Swan
    • The Shark (Carcharodon Carcharias) or Toward a Radical Empathy
      Creative Nonfiction

  • Joe Wilkins
    • Dirt Song
      Poetry
    • Cohagen Travelogue
      Poetry

  • Rebecca Clark
    • Bees and Clover
      Visual Art

 

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