by Nes | Jun 9, 2026 | Writer
Yana Zgurskaya is a writer and a translator born and residing in Kazakhstan. Her writing is largely centered around working with memory and lived experience, as well as exploring the relationship between form and content. While at Nes, she has been piecing together a...
by Nes | May 29, 2026 | Uncategorized, Writer
LJ Jensen is a non-fiction writer from Brooklyn, NY. Their essays can be found in The Rumpus, Catapult, Lunch Ticket, and elsewhere. They are an alum of Kenyon Writers Workshop and McCormack Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly Tin House), and a recipient of fellowships...
by Nes | May 15, 2026 | Writer, Artist
Erika Thorkelson is a writer of Icelandic, French and English ancestry who has lived in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Dublin and a small town in Japan. Her essays, criticism, journalism and short stories have appeared in The Walrus, Chatelaine, Room Magazine and Maisonneuve...
by Nes | Oct 13, 2021 | Writer
Henry is a nature facilitator and writer, and, over the past decade, has managed a trail project in Iceland’s Westfjords region. Through this project, he has co-authored a four-part creative guide, Wayfinding in the Westfjords. Imbued with practical advice, as...
by Nes | Sep 22, 2021 | Writer
“ I believe that my relationship to poetry is animated by three energies which complete and nourish each other: a call from Childhood, the vertigo of a dialogue with the Unknown, language and body seeking together the infinite conjugation of Love. ” Coline Marescaux...
by Nes | Aug 6, 2021 | Writer
I had a clear intention for my time at NES—and was surprised by the opposite direction my work took this summer. New synapsis in my brain seemed to happen. New forms of expression. I am a PhD researcher and writer @Aberystwyth University in Wales, and former Fulbright...
