Chris Turnbull and I write to each other via the forests while we’re separated by 4,388km. Our co-created work includes excerpts titled Mesh (SOME, summer 2022), Left (Touch the Donkey, issue 35, above/ground press, fall 2022), and Linen (SOME, 2024), all of which trace spaces and lines through the woods toward an understanding of ecological friendship.
Chris Turnbull is the author of Cipher (Beautiful Outlaw Press 2024), Continua (Chaudiere Books 2015; Invisible Press 2019) and [ untitled ] in o w n (CUE Books 2014). Recent chapbooks include contrite (above/ground 2019), Undertones, in collaboration with text/artist Bruno Neiva (Low Frequency Press 2019), notes from recently (Trainwreck Press 2020), and, with artist Dominique Cameron, a visual and poetic exchange, Converse Walking (stickywilly press, 2020). Other work can be found online, in print, or exhibited within landscapes. She curates a footpress, rout/e, whereby poems by various poets are planted on trails: www.etuor.wordpress.com. She lives and moves within the traditional territories and the relationships of the Algonquin of Anishinabek peoples (of Ojibway, Odawa, Algonquin, Potawatomi, Nipissing, Mississaugas, and Saulteau nations), the Mohawk of the Haudenosaunee peoples (of the Iroquois Confederacy: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora nations) and the Huron-Wendat.
An interview with Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Chris Turnbull
