Charles Malone is assistant director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. His poetry collections include After an Eclipse of Moths, Working Hypothesis, and Questions about Circulation.

Carrie George received her MFA from Kent State University and the Northeast Ohio MFA program. She is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, the Florida Review, the Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere.

Jason Harris is a Black American who serves as editor in chief for Gordon Square Review. His writing has appeared in Hobart, Barren Magazine, the Cleveland Review of Books, and more.

"Where standard field guides end, this one begins with a terrifically diverse chorus that sings and dreams us into a deeper connection with a special place. The way poem lives alongside art to honor other beings makes this marvelous collection nothing short of an ecology of wildness and wonder."--Derek Sheffield, coeditor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry and poetry editor of Terrain.org

"The collection is an emotional 'hike' through our own memories, anxieties, and longings to find something new, or in some cases be something new; how to discover ways to identify ourselves and exist in unpredictable circumstances."--Amy Rosenbluth, cofounder and executive director of Lake Erie Ink a writing space for youth