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is the author of Towards a Retreat and the editor of From Root to Seed: Black, Brown and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast. She is a certified Maine Master Naturalist and is the Executive Director of Maine Humanities.

is a farmer and carpenter. He loves geeking out on nature, outdoor recreating and all things that ferment. Artistic expression is something he strayed away from during adolescence.  Only recently has writing poetry and music come back into practice, after a 10-year hiatus.