
honored in best american essays 2020-2021
notable essays
2021: “We Learned to Love Squirrel and to Fear Tiger” (read it online)
2020: “I Am Not Your Peril” (read it online)
Emergence Magazine won the 2021 Webby Award for Best Editorial Writing and is a two-time National Magazine Award finalist for their innovative and expansive documentation of the impacts of the Anthropocene on world cultures, ecology, and spirituality.
WATCH: “The Cultural Healing Power of Food,” a conversation about food, nourishment, and healing with Lisa Lee Herrick and other Emergence contributors.
Illustration credits: Maria Nguyen (“We Learned to Love Squirrel and to Fear Tiger”), Hokyoung Kim (“I Am Not Your Peril”).
All photos: Lisa Lee Herrick.







