Welcome to the Fall 2019 issue of Unearthed!

This issue includes work from thirty contributors (listed and linked below). Throughout the issue, you will find fiction, poetry, photography, art, and nonfiction. You will find voices lost in the wilderness, found in the wilderness; dispatches from Vermont and Oregon and Texas and Hawaii and Italy and beyond; most of all, you will sense a continuous urge to unearth ideas, theories, emotions, and truths.

Special thanks to the student editorial board, who read submissions anonymously, and whose conversations about what made this issue what it is are paramount. These students read well over 100 submissions. The difficult task for them and Unearthed has always been to turn down good work. As editors, we must come to terms with the fact that rejection is part of the process and happens mostly because each issue takes on its own voice and breadth, and thus we always welcome new submissions from writers and artists who have submitted in the past. The editorial board talked in depth about submissions and they have chosen a wide array of work, all of which gets at what it means to unearth.

The student editors for the Fall issue are: Samantha Kolb, Aidan Murphy, and Arik Palileo. This issue could not have been made possible without the support of the Department of Environmental Studies, the Writing, Rhetoric & Communications Program, and Joel Shaw, from the Office of Communications and Marketing at SUNY-ESF.

Cheers, Tyler Flynn Dorholt

Managing Editor