About Us

c.huffman
Diligently searching for linguistic intersections and a four way go, c is working towards articulating the constant train wreck in the brain. The methodology involved in invoking this phenomenon requires c to sit and stare for hours at a time. A child of diaspora, she taught Comparative Religion with a focus on religion and social justice for ten years at Hunter College in NYC before working as language director on a language revitalization grant for the Kaw Nation in Oklahoma for a year and a half. She now lives in the foothills of the Big Rocky Mountains, in the traditional lands of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Lipan Apache, in the shadow of the shining mountain, writing and nursing aching neurons; encouraging intersectional advocacy with a particular focus on dis/ability and Indigenous issues. Also, cooking sometimes happens, with do skúwe. She has an MFA from the City University of New York and an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary. She is a poet and a theologian.

Lydia Zeglin
From rural west-central Wisconsin, then college towns and cities in the mid-, south-, and northwest US. Our small Wisconsin farm produces lamb and beef at the border of Buffalo and Trempealeau counties, not at all coincidentally located at the eastern extent of the former prairie savanna of the Great Plains. There, we grew up looking out over a landscape of fields and woods, knowing that it was an open extent of grass and oak trees only decades before, but only able to imagine that view. When I learned in college that after the indigenous fires were extinguished, the vegetation flipped from prairie to an alternate state of woods, it was something I'd known forever; and also something I wanted to learn more about. The people and the land I grew up with are one; they ground me, and motivate me. This is why I'm here.

Rissa Garcia-Prudencio
Borderlands, plants and people