R. Bratten Weiss is an editor, freelance academic, and eco-grower residing in rural Ohio. Her creative work has appeared in numerous publications, including Two Hawks Quarterly, Connecticut River Review, On the Seawall, Ethel, Convivium, Jesus the Imagination, New Ohio Review, and Slipstream. Her collaborative chapbook Mud Woman, with poet Joanna Penn Cooper, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2018, and her chapbook Talking to Snakes is forthcoming from Ethel in 2020. In her essays and creative works she explores themes of woman’s identity, politics, ecology, and religion.