C. Rees (they/him) is a Pennsylvania-born ecopoet, writer, cultural worker, and New Writers Project alumnus living in Austin, TX. Their work excavates hauntings and landscapes, contamination and complicity, notions of emergence and knots of hybridity. His writing has appeared in Apocalypse Confidential, Territory, the Action Books Blog, Bat City Review, the Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Their poem “Crossing” was chosen for the Poetry Society of America for the 2024 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, and recently they were a resident at Willapa Bay AiR in May 2024. You can read their work at https://linktr.ee/c.rees.