Dear Reader,
This week we’re bringing you “The Sturgeon’s Dream: A Libretto,” part one and part two, written by Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen.
Michaela Vieser is a Berlin-based award-winning author of ten books, including the national bestseller Tea with Buddha. Her narrative work has appeared on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, BBC, FAZ, Geo, NZZ, Financial Times, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others. Her features and documentaries have been nominated for the Bavarian film prize and the Grimme Preis.
Isaac Yuen’s short fiction and creative nonfiction can be found at AGNI, Gulf Coast, Orion, Shenandoah, The Willowherb Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Tin House, and other publications. A first-generation Hong Kong Canadian based in Berlin, his debut nature essay collection titled Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World, was published in April 2024. Read Isaac Yuen’s previous contributions to Humans & Nature Press Digital here.
“The Sturgeon’s Dream: A Libretto” was created as part of The Å//A Universe – Hidden Songlines of the Baltic Sea by FrauVonDa.
We’ll return with more beautiful essays next week. In the meantime, a reminder: Our 2024 call for submissions for Humans & Nature Press Digital is open through 11:59pm on Monday, July 15th—one week from today! We accept essays, poetry, and artwork. Further details can be found below and here. This week’s full newsletter can be found here.
Much love,
Center for Humans & Nature
Image credit: Satellite photo of the Baltic Sea surrounding Gotland, Sweden, with algae bloom (phytoplankton) swirling in the water. Credit: European Space Agency, with modified Copernicus Sentinel data from 2019, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Full credit here.
