Dr. Karin Bolender is an artist-researcher and founder of an experimental ecological art platform called the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.). She earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Humanities from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, following degrees in creative writing (MA, Hollins University) and literature (BA, Bard College). The Unnaming of Aliass was published in 2020 by 3Ecologies/punctum, and she is a co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice (Duke, 2022). Engaging methods across contemporary art and environmental humanities, Dr. Bolender interweaves artistic, academic, activist, philosophical, and other fields of inquiry. Her work has been featured internationally in numerous venues and writing has appeared in collections including The Multispecies Salon, Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, and Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene, along with journals including Antennae, Performance Research, Humanimalia, and the Journal of the Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts (CSPA). She has been teaching courses in art, literature, writing, and related subjects across the humanities since 2004.