Esther Mathieu

Esther Mathieu is a writer and artist from Queens, New York, currently living in Salt Lake City, where they are pursuing a Master's in Environmental Humanities. Esther's childhood was dedicated to art, writing, and the violin, and full of a fierce attachment to lepidoptera, cats, and the ocean. As a graduate student, Esther is exploring the ways in which wetland ecologies can serve as design instructions for climate adaptation. Their artistic work explores questions of mental health and illness, mythologies, ecologies, and engagement with place, and sits mostly in the worlds of poetry, photography, book arts, and collage. When they are not in the field (or the classroom), they can be found plotting the beginnings of seventeen simultaneous projects, hanging with their cat, Willow, biking from vintage store to bookshop, or baking an abundance of chocolate desserts.