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A Stone Made of Circle: An Island Waybook

Written Hannah Close, A Stone Made of Circle is testimony to the “shaping of a mindscape in a landscape,” an experimental island monograph from the salt-lashed edges of the Hebridean archipelago which tracks a voyage into themes as personal as they are universal—wildness, origins, belonging, enchantment—and a call for a radical reconnection to the living Earth.

A work of briny imagination, this elemental ensemble takes us through the basaltic cracks of deep time, across roiling Atlantic seas to the shore’s edge to meet with ancient seaweed spirits, airborne lighthouse keepers, fierce weather gods, rollicking skeleton kings and living ancestors, all while reckoning with—and revelling in—life at the edges.

Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature

Edited by Bruce Jennings and Gavin Van Horn with poetry editor Heather Swan, this shimmering volume of sensation from Humans & Nature Press proposes possibilities and practices to heighten and expand readers’ empathic imaginations and sensory awareness of the natural world through everyday experiences with nature.

With over fifty contributors and topics that range from plant communication to bees’ sense of beauty to animism and hedgehogs, this volume offers a sensory feast that includes and goes beyond human perceptions by honoring and attending to nonhuman lifeworlds.

How Do We Come Together In A Changing World?

How do we come together in a changing world? Inspired by this inquiry, the Center for Humans & Nature’s Questions for a Resilient Future series brings together this collection of essays and conversations curated by Editorial Fellows Kailea Loften and Kate Weiner. Foreword by Katherine Kassouf Cummings.

Elementals

Edited by Gavin Van Horn and Bruce Jennings with poetry editors Nickole Brown and Craig Santos Perez, Elementals is the second book series published by Humans & Nature Press.

These five Elementals volumes—Earth, Air, Water, Fire, An Elemental Life—offer essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations

Edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is the first book series published by Humans & Nature Press.

A lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. These five Kinship volumes—Planet, Place, Partners, Persons, Practice—offer essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity, highlighting the interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beings.

The 2026 call for manuscript proposals with the books branch of Humans & Nature Press has now closed. We received a record-breaking number of submissions. Thank you! We will seek to notify submitters of the status of their proposal within four months. At the present time, we project that we will accept no more than three book manuscripts for publication in 2027-2028.