Credits - Ecotone

Ecotone (issn 1553-1775) is published twice yearly by the Department of Creative Writing and The Publishing Laboratory at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. We are grateful for funding from the UNCW Department of Creative Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts.

credits
“A Spell for Lamentation and Renewal,” by Ned Balbo, “brd,” by Anthony Cody, “A Double Sonnet for the River,” by jason b. crawford, “The Last Hummingbird of Summer,” by Beth Ann Fennelly, “Chewing the Sun,” by Tiffany M. Higgins, “Water Path / Aguacamino,” by Rossy Evelin Lima, “The River Remembers,” by January Gill O’Neil, “Anthropocene Pastoral,” by Catherine Pierce, “Self-Portrait as Southern Resident Orca,” by Martha Silano, “The Big One,” by Kenton K. Yee, and “I read that the moon is rusting,” by Jane Zwart are © their respective authors. These poems appeared in the book Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, published by Trinity University Press. Reprinted courtesy of Trinity University Press. tupress.org

“The Space Between” by Lia Purpura appeared in Ecotone 3 and in On Looking, © Lia Purpura, Sarabande Books, 2006. sarabandebooks.org

art credits
Pages 34-35 © Oradige59 via Adobe Stock; pages 74-75 © Moussa Idrissi via Pexels; Pages 80–81 © Shana Van Roosbroek via Unsplash.

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Ecotone is set in Bell Gothic and Janson. This issue is printed on Glatfelter Antique and bound in uncoated Via Vellum Bright White, by Sheridan Press, an FSC-certified company, in Hanover, Pennsylvania.

Cover art direction by Michael Ramos.

For the cover of Ecotone’s twentieth-anniversary issue, we commissioned Ben Blount to set and print the titling using wood type from the collection in his studio in Evanston, Illinois. Blount’s first type came from Magic, Inc., a magic shop in Chicago. Ecotone readers may have encountered his work in our Bradford-Niedermann Broadside Series, the broadsides for which he designed and printed in 2023. We are pleased to feature his type collection and his printing again as we mark this anniversary year.

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Subscriptions: $24 (one year, two issues) for U. S. addresses. Single copies and institutional subscriptions are also available.

Please address all correspondence to Ecotone, Department of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5938. For more information, including submission guidelines, please visit ecotonemagazine.org.

The short stories in this issue are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents are products of the authors’ imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events is entirely coincidental. The views expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of its editors or sponsors.

Ecotone is published in what is now called Wilmington, North Carolina, which is located on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Waccamaw, Catawba, and Cape Fear People, among others whose names we may not know. For thousands of years, this land served as a site of community and exchange between Indigenous peoples, until settler-colonists seized it from them. Legacies of violence, oppression, dehumanization, dispossession, and settlement have intersected here, erasing names, traditions, cultures, languages, and ways of knowing. As a magazine dedicated to reimagining place, Ecotone is committed to acknowledging and trying to better understand the full history of the place where we work, write, edit, and learn.

Additionally, the larger region seized, occupied, and now known as North Carolina is the present-day home of the Coharie, Lumbee, Haliwa-Saponi, Waccamaw Siouan, and Sappony Tribes, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, the Meherrin Indian Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. We honor and respect the elders and members of the diverse Indigenous traditions connected to this territory we now occupy. As a community of writers, editors, and artists, we are personally and organizationally committed to honoring their legacies.
We offer our gratitude to Symphony D. Oxendine, assistant professor of educational leadership at UNC Wilmington’s College of Education, for her land acknowledgement for the University of North Carolina Wilmington; to the UNC Chapel Hill American Indian Center for information on Indigenous peoples in this region; and to the U. S. Department of Arts and Culture for its resources on land acknowledgment.

If you wish to consider the land where you are more closely, one place to begin is this community-sourced map from Native Land Digital: native-land.ca. For more on the practice and process of land acknowledgement, and for guidance in creating or updating your own, visit the U. S. Department of Arts and Culture at usdac.us.