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WritingIvan Lima2023-05-03T11:28:59+00:00

Selected Reporting & Essays

Holly2024-09-21T01:00:22+00:00
Woman in the Woods
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Woman in the Woods

Woman in the Woods

For The Bitter Southerner. The week police found her dead in the woods, the woods were coming alive. ...

Holly2024-02-27T15:47:42+00:00
Write While Lying Down
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Write While Lying Down

Write While Lying Down

For Literary Hub. On sheltering the Muse and protecting the gift-sphere.

Holly2024-02-27T15:48:26+00:00
Foraging in the Archives
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Foraging in the Archives

Foraging in the Archives

For Arnoldia, the journal of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard. On the life of botanist and forager Marie Mellinger (1914-2006), her archival collection of recipes made with wild-foraged foods, histories of foraging, and the presence of plants and women's lives in the archives.

Holly2022-12-14T14:11:13+00:00
Once Upon a High Lonesome
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Once Upon a High Lonesome

Once Upon a High Lonesome

Listening for a wandering voice, for Oxford American magazine

Holly2023-10-13T04:15:32+00:00
An Essay about Men
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An Essay about Men

An Essay about Men

For Literary Hub. Considering the inner worlds of those who are taught to deny them.

Holly2022-07-31T18:14:14+00:00
Bodies of Knowledge: Dissecting the Mysteries of Life
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Bodies of Knowledge: Dissecting the Mysteries of Life

Bodies of Knowledge: Dissecting the Mysteries of Life

For Orion magazine. What do we find on peeling back the world's skin? An essay on frog dissection, books of secrets, electrical experiments, Frankenstein's monster, & mystery.

Holly2022-03-20T18:14:24+00:00
Mountains Walking: The Long Journey of Mt. Mitchell’s Ancient Forests
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Mountains Walking: The Long Journey of Mt. Mitchell’s Ancient Forests

Mountains Walking: The Long Journey of Mt. Mitchell’s Ancient Forests

For Sierra magazine. Hiking through a forest of climate migrants in North Carolina's Black Mountains.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T03:32:40+00:00
As the World Burns, Billionaires Race to Space
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As the World Burns, Billionaires Race to Space

As the World Burns, Billionaires Race to Space

For Sierra magazine. Billionaires are flying to space in fossil-fueled rockets to escape the carbon-laden atmosphere and enjoy a few minutes of microgravity. Meanwhile, the highest temperatures ever recorded are searing the earth.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:39:56+00:00
The Song of the Cicada
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The Song of the Cicada

The Song of the Cicada

For Sierra magazine. Out of the pandemic, into metamorphosis. On the occasion of the Brood X emergence.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:41:51+00:00
The Days Are Walking
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The Days Are Walking

The Days Are Walking

For Oxford American magazine. I set forth on foot following this tug of energy that urged my legs to walk. The circle of my life, small as it was, widened outward.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:46:14+00:00
Lessons In Breathing
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Lessons In Breathing

Lessons In Breathing

For Sierra magazine. Teaching the connections in a time of crisis.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:45:31+00:00
The Language of Extinction
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The Language of Extinction

The Language of Extinction

For In These Times magazine. It is often the case now that we do not know of an animal’s or insect’s or plant’s existence—do not ever hear its name—until it is almost gone.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:51:26+00:00
Letter of Recommendation: Crickets
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Letter of Recommendation: Crickets

Letter of Recommendation: Crickets

For The New York Times Magazine. In which I, of course, recommend crickets.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:49:31+00:00
Through the Burning World You Blazed
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Through the Burning World You Blazed

Through the Burning World You Blazed

for A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (UGA Press 2019) & featured in Southern Humanities Review. A poem about a fish called the chucky madtom.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:47:55+00:00
Undefined Waters
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Undefined Waters

Undefined Waters

For Sierra magazine. Words from my wet land.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:53:52+00:00
Creative Economies in the Coal Fields
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Creative Economies in the Coal Fields

Creative Economies in the Coal Fields

For Orion magazine. In the coal fields of Eastern Kentucky, how might art nurture an economy that feeds not only mouths but the hearts of people & the places they live in?

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:57:03+00:00
At the News of Merwin’s Passing
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At the News of Merwin’s Passing

At the News of Merwin’s Passing

For Orion magazine. A meditation on the poet’s life in trees.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T17:02:48+00:00
Deep In Time
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Deep In Time

Deep In Time

For Orion magazine, & reprinted in The Utne Reader. Fossils & fossil fuels in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T16:58:56+00:00
The Fading Stars: A Constellation
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The Fading Stars: A Constellation

The Fading Stars: A Constellation

For Lapham's Quarterly. While modern astronomy has widened our understanding of the universe, this scientific culture has severed our deep intimacy with the cosmos. Selected by Sy Montgomery for The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2019.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T17:04:44+00:00
The Unbearable Lightness of Being My Father
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being My Father

The Unbearable Lightness of Being My Father

For Oxford American magazine.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T17:06:32+00:00
Pacific Passages: A Language of Stars
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Pacific Passages: A Language of Stars

Pacific Passages: A Language of Stars

For Lapham's Quarterly. How Native Hawaiians traversed the cosmos—then lost their way in translation.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T17:09:45+00:00
Seven Words for Sustenance & Gnawing
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Seven Words for Sustenance & Gnawing

Seven Words for Sustenance & Gnawing

For Terrain.org. A weaving of seven words: Strawberries, Moon, June, Sustain, Snake, Shelter, Rhododendron. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T17:13:09+00:00
The Soft Things
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The Soft Things

The Soft Things

For the Oxford American magazine. The author shares her fascination with the astounding array of native freshwater mussels in the Tennessee River watershed.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T17:15:16+00:00
Places that Have No Names
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Places that Have No Names

Places that Have No Names

For the Oxford American magazine. In which the author rides a train from El Paso, Texas to Lynchburg, Virginia. Listed as notable in Best American Travel Writing.

Ivan Lima2022-03-10T17:17:49+00:00
Letter to America
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Letter to America

Letter to America

For Terrain.org. A story of interdependence, told through American soil.

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