Aureate Prize Winner
Rebecca St. Pierre
Reflecting on Connections
Nature continues to be my muse and mentor. It inspires my photographs, stories, poems, and the composite images I create from the thousands of photos I've taken over the past 20 years. Each composite image depicts a fictional world intended to prompt curiosity about and appreciation of the natural environment. Photo-editing software gives me creative control over the movement, light, and colour in my artwork as I pay homage to nature's invaluable role in our lives. More of my images can be found at https://www.wordflightandlight.com.
Vincenzo Cohen
Lurking Crocodile
Boom Slang
Vincenzo Cohen is an Italian socially engaged multidisciplinary artist. He graduated in Painting from Fine Arts Academy and subsequently he achieved the degree in Archaeological Sciences in Rome. His production ranges from visual arts to writing and consists in reworking of biographical experiences by exploring cultural, social and environmental content. His devotion for nature, ingrained since childhood, motivates his involvement in environmental awareness art projects. Over the years his art has opened up to new experimental languages with different media and styles.
Morgan Alexa Braid
Squamata
Dawn L. C. Miller
Buddies by the River
Dawn L. C. Miller, page ##, holds an MA degree in Literature. Her work has been published in The Bluebird Word, Yellow Mama and Feral. Her self-published collections include Illuminations and Out of the Basement. A resident of Maryland's Eastern Shore, she daily witnesses the effects of human intervention on the forests and marshlands she loves. An avid photographer, she has traveled extensively, but always returns home to pamper her cats.
Frances Fish
The Trio
Frances Fish’s passion lies behind a camera. She has dabbled as an abstract painter and often shoots hundreds of photographs a day. Her friends call her a 'preservationist' photographer, as her images are mainly of the abandoned places in the desert, covered in graffiti, which change day by day. Frances however has a great love of nature and all the beauty it holds. The work of Frances Fish has been published in multiple magazines, and in a previous life, she was also a novelist, publishing seven novels, though under a pseudonym.
Tinamarie Cox
Crotaphytus collaris Sunbathes in Arizona"
Tinamarie Cox lives in Arizona with her husband, two children, and a one-eyed cat. Her written and visual work has appeared in numerous publications under various genres. Explore more of her work at tinamariethinkstoomuch.weebly.com.
Talitha May
anole
Talitha May is an educator and artist whose work examines animal and environmental issues.
Olude Peter
bring me a reptile
Olude Peter is a writer, an artist and poet from Ogun State, Nigeria. He has a few of his works published and Forthcoming in Magazines including: Hayden's Ferry Review, The Rush Magazine, The Lighthouse, The Shallow Tales Review, Non-Binary Review, Typehouse lit mag, Paper Lantern, Blue Marble, Ladies Girls Club, NativeSkin lit and elsewhere.
Shagufta Mulla
I didn't think I'd miss the desert
Shagufta Mulla is the art editor of Peatsmoke Journal, an emerging poet, and a veterinarian-turned-writer/editor for TIME Magazine’s e-commerce venture, TIME Stamped. Her art has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Five on the Fifth, ARC Journal of Art & Literature, Opia, Minnow Literary, and in galleries. You can see more of her paintings on Instagram @s.mulla.dvm.