Benediction Remembering Sunrise and Fawn, with a Trip to the Planetarium

Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of the interdisciplinary collaboration (with visual artist Carrie DeBacker) Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (Entre Ríos Books, 2017), the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press, 2015), and the poetry collection Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press, 2011). Her essays and fiction appear in Booth , Passages North , and the anthology This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017). A recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and a residency in the H.J. Andrews Forest, Maya teaches at Central Washington University. Photo by Zoey Zeller