Melanie Viets

Melanie Viets is a writer and shepherd from Vermont. Her essays and stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Whitefish Review, About Place Journal, and The Clearing from Little Toller Books, among others. She is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. She teaches community writing classes and tends her family’s Landskein Farm in Vermont.

Jussi Kivi

Root Mapping3 December, 2020<5 August, 2021

Making maps in the backwoods

Melanie Viets speaks to influential artist Jussi Kivi about mapping hidden histories in the landscapes around (and under) Helsinki and beyond.

Jussi Kivi

Root Mapping16 December, 2019<5 February, 2020

Editorial: Root Mapping

There is no map to the place we are going. We will be lost for a good, long time. — Eva Saulitis, Becoming…

Jussi Kivi

Root Mapping2 September, 2019<7 March, 2022

Open call: Root Mapping

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