In the spring 2014, we decided to make a book.
It became a way of bringing people together and connecting us to our love of the natural world through the materials we used and the people we included. The conversation continues to this day.
About Us
Irene Lee
Irene Lyla Lee is a writer, educator, and book artist dedicated to storytelling and the places where land and imagination meet. Irene’s writing has appeared in Visitant, YES! Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Observer, and more. She is founder of the small press, ilylali, and co-founder of Oreades Press. To stay close to the land she authors the weekly blog: What's That Plant?!. Irene teaches through her education platform, Bending Tree Education, and she organizes with the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group. Irene holds an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. She is teaching herself the Martha Graham technique on unceded Lenapehoking, Brooklyn, NY.
Rachel TonThat
Rachel TonThat is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with narrative structures around themes of possible futures, memory, and space-time. She was selected for the inaugural She Who Has No Master(s) writing mentorship through the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network and completed her MA Fine Art at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work has been supported by the ZHdK International Project Fund, the city of Zurich, Canton St. Gallen, the AAPI Commission of Massachusetts, and New England Foundation For the Arts. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in Intervenxions, Diacritics, The Amp, and more. She lives in Salem, MA.