Erika Howsare lives in rural Virginia, where she mothers full-time and works as a birth doula. With Kate Schapira, she wrote a book-length poetic meditation on waste, called FILL: A Collection, published by Trembling Pillow Press in 2016. She was a co-editor at Horse Less Press for 11 years. Previous projects included a performative multimedia walk across Rhode Island, and she's currently finishing a new manuscript called Coal Is a Food.
Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White discuss their most recent collaborative project, Biotic Portal, how they initially met, and loving their garden's "outlaws."