Phoenix Amaterasu, also known as PHNX, is a multi-dimensional creative singer/songwriter, producer-musician, visual artist and writer. Their tribal affiliations are Lipan Apache, Coahuiltecan, Guachichil Chichimeca. They also acknowledge Afro-indigenous (Bantu Congolese) and South American Indigenous roots, but due to their diasporic history, they are challenged with not being able to name specific tribes. Their mission as an artist is to uplift their people/community through art and music to share their medicine in ways that heal, inspire, and awaken. They aim to sustain themself while sustaining their people, creating cycles of reciprocity where creativity becomes nourishment.”
Instagram: @PHNX.WAV
Kim Melton (she/her) is a biologist working in conservation and reconciliation with Indigenous people and with the land on which she lives, on the traditional Territory of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in in central Yukon, Canada. She is committed to contributing to community that is finding its way towards a more sustainable and sane relationship with the land through growing food, teaching and learning, and queering language and life. She loves sensing the alive world around her, imagining other ways of being, and responding with words and music. Her writing has appeared in Cirque, Northern Public Affairs, PUBLIC (pending), two anthologies, and as part of multimedia exhibits.
While not easy to locate on the internet, Kim can be found on ski trails or in her garden if you happen to travel to Dawson City.
Cristina Mormorunni (Métis & Sardo), or Issistsáakiiksi (Wolverine Woman) is the Co-founder and Director of INDIGENOUS LED. She has 30 years of applied experience from the Arctic to the Antarctic leading campaigns and designing biocultural conservation strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and individual donors. She also serves as the Founder and Principle of the TERRAMAR collective, which provides strategic advice to foundations and nonprofits interested in Indigenous-led conservation and the protection of biocultural diversity. She is mildly obsessed with restoring 30,000 Buffalo to North America.
Rebecca Weil writes from the edge of a heron rookery, surrounded by swamps, forests and farmland. Recent writing has been published in One, Emerge Literary Journal, Earthshine, Humana Obscura, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, The Journal of Wild Culture, and Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, in which her piece “Old Friends,” was a finalist in the 2024 nonfiction contest. Weil is the author of the award-winning nonfiction book Bring Me the Ocean. A poetry chapbook is being published by Monday Editions, November 2025. She lives on a farm in Upstate New York.