They blended their lived experiences with vivid imagery as a playful and powerful way to bring issues of the natural environment and personal identity to light.

There is such a dissociation from the earth below us, being in a city that is so overdeveloped.

Writing about the natural world has been a very essential way for me to reconnect and to feel, yeah, to feel, to bring feeling back into a very desensitized connection.

She told me that she writes as a way to recenter the natural world in her life.

It's a very life-saving, um, kind of reframing of thinking to, to center the natural world and to express love to it and to express yearning for, for it even.