Contributors
Laura Page
Laura Page is a British illustrator and painter. Using the traditional media of gouache paint and oil pastels, all her illustrations are hand painted and take inspiration from travel, nature and pattern. Laura’s work includes a diverse range of illustration projects, including editorial illustration, publishing and adverting. You can also shop for Laura’s prints and original paintings via her website.
Kim Konen
Kim Konen is a quilt maker and fiber-based artist who has lived all over the country but settled in Wisconsin with her two kids and husband. When she’s not making custom quilts, she is teaching at a local public school, choosing colors for a new quilt with her daughter, or knitting tiny bunnies with her autistic son, who gives each one a name and a story. Read more about her work at kimkonen.com or on Instagram @kim_konen.
E. Edward Horne
E. Edward Horne lives with his wife and children in Virginia, and wishes he had more time to knit. He believes that we should use front porches more and back decks less. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the journals Dappled Things, Visions International, and Ekstasis.
Abbey Anderson
Abbey Andersen currently resides and illustrates on the Western Slope of Colorado. She holds a BA in Studio Art and Creative Writing from Humboldt State University and specializes in colored pencil, pen, clay, wood burning, and foraged-fruit popsicles. Abbey is particularly interested in using her artwork to drum up excitement for the overlooked and under-represented whimsicalities of the natural world. Find more at www.abbeyandersen.com and on Instagram: @whistlingwhistlepig.
Abby Goodman
Abby Goodman is a knitwear designer and maker living in Durham, North Carolina. Her designs are intended to celebrate the natural world and its seasons and empower the wearer to feel cozy and brave. When not knitting, she can be found sewing, preserving, stitching, and taking walks in her neighborhood woods.
Louise Nielsen
Louise Nielsen, a retired certified pastry chef and certified floral designer, spends her days baking, cooking, crafting, designing, and growing all things floral. When not obsessed with flowers, you will find her with her family renovating a 100-year-old U.S. Forest Service cabin in Southern California’s Cleveland National Forest.
Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns
Nicole is a queer writer, artist, educator, adventurer, and radical homemaker who enjoys cavorting with insects, eating fibrous fruit, collecting misplaced postal rubber bands, and singing loudly. She and her wife, along with their niece and nephew, live in a cozy and colorful home in Minneapolis, MN.
Ashley Daly
Ashley Heider Daly lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a red-headed husband, a bright-hearted daughter named Harriet, and her dog Walter. She's a former vintage furniture store owner, a current gardener, writer, humorist, interior designer, sewist, and forever lover of life, people, and this present moment. Find her at ashleydaly.substack.com.
Dhivya Shastri
Dhivya Shastri, a Toronto-based writer, owns a creative space that empowers BIPOC artists and artisans. Deeply connected to her Tamil and Malayali roots, she writes about identity, self awareness, and food. She is studying to be a Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner and often sneaks Ayurvedic knowledge into her writing. On her down time, Dhivya is likely reveling in a delightful meal.
Andria Lo
Andria Lo is a California-based commercial and editorial photographer specializing in still life, food culture, and portraiture. Raised in Alaska and Texas, she now calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. In 2020, she published her first book Chinatown Pretty, with co-author Valerie Luu, which documents the street style and stories of elders in Chinatowns across North America.
Hannah Grace
Hannah Grace OC is a botanical illustrator, based in Bristol, UK. When not drawing plants, Hannah can be found wandering the very landscapes that inspire her & swimming in the sea wherever possible.
Jackie Bussjaeger
Jackie Bussjaeger is a writer and journalist from Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota), traditional homeland of the Dakota and Ojibwe people. When she's not following some elusive birdsong, she's combing over the forest floor looking for spring ephemerals and secret forage spots.