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Hailing from the American South, Esther Lee lives and writes on a 35’ sailboat with her artist husband, Michael, and their cat, Bowie. A Kundiman fellow, she is the author of the chapbook, Blank Missives (Trafficker Press), and her debut poetry collection, Spit, which received the Elixir Press Poetry Prize and Pushcart Prize nominations.

Her second poetry collection, Sacrificial Metal, was selected for the Minds on Fire Book Prize by Conduit Books & Ephemera. Her writing and collaborations with visual artists have appeared in multiple literary magazines and anthologies. You can read more about her mischief at wayfindersnow.com and estherlee.io.

Repair Culture: Learning to Fix Instead of Replace

Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question:

What if we tried to keep things going a little longer?

At its core, this

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Spit

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