Publishing-in-Transit: The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics

Mary Newell authored the poetry chapbooks TILT/ HOVER/ VEER (Codhill Press) and Re-SURGE (Trainwreck Press, now from the author), poems in journals and anthologies, and essays including “When Poetry Rivers” (Interim journal 38.3). She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Newell teaches creative writing and literature at UConn Stamford and online classes for the Poetry Barn and Chax Press.

Combining the insights of Literary Studies, Linguistics and Anthropology to explore authors’ relationship with the more-than-human world, Charles Pigott’s research focuses on literature produced in Spanish and four Indigenous languages of Latin America: Yucatec Maya, Nahuatl, and two varieties of Quechua. He is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University of Strathclyde, UK, Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and member of the UK Young Academy. He has previously worked at Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico, University of Cambridge, and Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. His monograph, Writing the Land, Writing Humanity: The Maya Literary Renaissance (Routledge, 2020), was awarded Honorable Mention by the Modern Language Association.

Stephen Collis is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose, including the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018). A History of the Theories of Rain (2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for poetry, and in 2019, Collis was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize. The Middle, the second volume of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain, will be published by Talonbooks in 2024.

Poet Cole Swensen is the author of 17 volumes of poetry and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over 20 volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2004 PEN USA Award in Literary Translation.