Kim Schmidt, Author at Orion Magazine

On the left is a photo of a Black woman smiling at the camera. She has long braids and glasses and is standing in front of trees with green leaves. On the right is another Black woman also smiling at the camera. She is sitting on rocks by water, and is wearing a straw hat.

Way Finders and Wild Women

Tiya Miles & Lauret Savoy

In which authors and historians Tiya Miles and Lauret Savoy discuss America’s trailblazing women, race, landscape, memory, the importance of getting girls outdoors, and Tiya’s new book Wild Girls. Lauret Savoy: Continue reading →

Left: A colorful, active illustration. In the center is a large, old tree with waving branches and roots. The roots spiral and descend loosely around a central textured sphere, within which are shown the words Soils Spirit Forest. From the bottom of the roots grow two dark human arms, colored as the tree bark. They dig into the soil below the tree, with a glowing illumination emerging from the soil and between the hands. Flowers and an amanita muscaria mushroom grow around the tree roots. At the top left of the image, above the tree and somewhat resembling clouds, is shown an old colonial map with names such as ‘New England’ and ‘Nova Scotia’. The map is then obscured by water-color blues, and in the top right, above a vivid burst of bright green tree leaves, flies a vivid blue-orange bird, somewhat resembling a passenger pigeon. The bird wings are open wide, chest blaring, red eye vivid, beak pointing up. Right: Against the backdrop of the textured bark of a tree, a light-skinned woman with buzzed hair on one side and shoulder length wavy hair on the other is standing gently smiling facing the camera directly.

To Remember Amid Dismemberment

By Petra Kuppers

In this interview, we are getting exciting glimpses into the development of a long-term creative environmental project—Orion’s Winter 2021 cover artist Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina’s Soils and Spirit, which will premiere in Continue reading →

A white person wearing a black swim cap and small goggles swims in gray water on a cloudy day.

Wild Swimming

By Samantha Hunt

NIGHTS ARE GETTING CHILLY in the Northeast and I am more often alone when I enter the water now, propelled there not by the heat but because, under water the border Continue reading →

There are two images side by side on a green background: on the left is the book cover for Stickler, and on the right is a photo of author Lane Smith

Too Fantastical: A Look at Lane Smith’s Imaginary Creatures

By Sumanth Prabhaker

It would take a very advanced calculator to tally up the hours my children have spent absorbed in the work of Lane Smith, whose smudgecore aesthetic defies the idea that an Continue reading →

The cover for This Country sits on the left. The top half of the book is yellow and shows an illustration of Navied walking towards a rural home. The bottom half is blue with an illustration of a skyline. On the right is Navied's author photo. He has short dark hair and a beard. He has glasses and is smiling broadly. He sits in front of a wall of busts.

Searching for Home in (Very) Rural Amercia

By Kathleen Yale

BEFORE IRANIAN AMERICAN cartoonist Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived Continue reading →

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