Utterly Compelled: A 2025 Fernland Studios Anthology
Fernland Studios’ inaugural anthology, charting place, attention, and ecological intimacy across ever-precarious and senses of place in flux
How do we stretch toward ourselves, our environments, and each other, from our own senses of time and place? Fernland Studios’ inaugural participant anthology gathers two years of study and place across Fernland Studios’ annual programming. Co-edited by Fernland Studios’ Co-Stewards, Zoë Gamell Brown and MaKshya Tolbert, Utterly Compelled is itself an ecology of rampant life.
With contributions from:
Ranya Salvant
Alexis Williams
Ching-In Chen
Kira Tucker
Mateo Reynaud
Daniel Lim
Neesha Powell-Ingabire
Ari Laurel
Nia Calloway
Asako Yonan
Vinisha Sedeso
Christina Tran
Victoria Danielle
Star Feliz
Zoë Gamell Brown
MaKshya Tolbert
Fernland Studios is an open-ended studio nurturing rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity to Black, Indigenous, and all People of Color through generative opportunities to sustain our relationships to the Earth and each other through artist residencies, ecological fellowships, educational retreats, and writing workshops.
Front cover image by Ranya Salvant
Back cover image by Star Feliz
Book design by Erica Ekrem
5 × 7
60+ pages
Perfect bound
Accessibility/Care note: No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If purchasing this book is prohibitive for you, please reach out to makshya@fernlandstudios.org who will be delighted to make sure you get a copy.
Fernland Studios’ inaugural anthology, charting place, attention, and ecological intimacy across ever-precarious and senses of place in flux
How do we stretch toward ourselves, our environments, and each other, from our own senses of time and place? Fernland Studios’ inaugural participant anthology gathers two years of study and place across Fernland Studios’ annual programming. Co-edited by Fernland Studios’ Co-Stewards, Zoë Gamell Brown and MaKshya Tolbert, Utterly Compelled is itself an ecology of rampant life.
With contributions from:
Ranya Salvant
Alexis Williams
Ching-In Chen
Kira Tucker
Mateo Reynaud
Daniel Lim
Neesha Powell-Ingabire
Ari Laurel
Nia Calloway
Asako Yonan
Vinisha Sedeso
Christina Tran
Victoria Danielle
Star Feliz
Zoë Gamell Brown
MaKshya Tolbert
Fernland Studios is an open-ended studio nurturing rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity to Black, Indigenous, and all People of Color through generative opportunities to sustain our relationships to the Earth and each other through artist residencies, ecological fellowships, educational retreats, and writing workshops.
Front cover image by Ranya Salvant
Back cover image by Star Feliz
Book design by Erica Ekrem
5 × 7
60+ pages
Perfect bound
Accessibility/Care note: No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If purchasing this book is prohibitive for you, please reach out to makshya@fernlandstudios.org who will be delighted to make sure you get a copy.
Fernland Studios’ inaugural anthology, charting place, attention, and ecological intimacy across ever-precarious and senses of place in flux
How do we stretch toward ourselves, our environments, and each other, from our own senses of time and place? Fernland Studios’ inaugural participant anthology gathers two years of study and place across Fernland Studios’ annual programming. Co-edited by Fernland Studios’ Co-Stewards, Zoë Gamell Brown and MaKshya Tolbert, Utterly Compelled is itself an ecology of rampant life.
With contributions from:
Ranya Salvant
Alexis Williams
Ching-In Chen
Kira Tucker
Mateo Reynaud
Daniel Lim
Neesha Powell-Ingabire
Ari Laurel
Nia Calloway
Asako Yonan
Vinisha Sedeso
Christina Tran
Victoria Danielle
Star Feliz
Zoë Gamell Brown
MaKshya Tolbert
Fernland Studios is an open-ended studio nurturing rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity to Black, Indigenous, and all People of Color through generative opportunities to sustain our relationships to the Earth and each other through artist residencies, ecological fellowships, educational retreats, and writing workshops.
Front cover image by Ranya Salvant
Back cover image by Star Feliz
Book design by Erica Ekrem
5 × 7
60+ pages
Perfect bound
Accessibility/Care note: No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If purchasing this book is prohibitive for you, please reach out to makshya@fernlandstudios.org who will be delighted to make sure you get a copy.