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Lisbeth White

James Clear

Lisbeth White lives on S’klallam and Chimacum land in the Pacific Northwest, where she writes towards eco-abolitionism and enchantivism. She is the author of the poetry collection, American Sycamore (Perugia Press, 2022), and co-editor of the anthology Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books, 2023). She has received support for her work from Artist Trust, VONA, Tin House, Roots.Wounds.Words., The Watering Hole, and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, as well as residencies with SeaSalted Honey, Blue Mountain Center and Bloedel Reserve.

A Most Natural Thing

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Part travel-writing, part ecopoetical mythology, part memoir of healing, Lisbeth White’s A Most Natural Thing: An Elemental Memoir was chosen by Michael Martone as the winner of the 2023 Chapbook Open. Split into four chapters-Air, Fire, Water, and Earth-White’s lyrical and formally inventive chapbook is alive with longing as it explores our connection with, and duty to, not just each other, but all the natural world.