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 Jackson

  • Alexis Williams

  • Ching-In Chen

  • Kira Tucker

  • Mateo Reynaud

  • Daniel Lim

  • Neesha Poweel-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.

Loam is the publishing branch of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, a non-profit organization that provides nature-based education for action at the confluence of ecological, social and personal systems change.

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.