EcoTheo Collective

celebrates wonder, enlivens conversations, and inspires commitments to ecology, spirituality, and art.

Staff

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LOGOS CURATOR Travis Helms

DESIGN EDITOR Landon McGee

INTERVIEWS EDITOR Esteban Rodriguez

NONFICTION EDITOR Julie Wan

FICTION EDITOR Breeann Kyte Kirby

POETRY EDITOR Crystal Oliver

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR Veronica Schorr

REVIEWS EDITOR Leo Simonovis

THEOLOGY EDITOR Ajanae Dawkins

VISUAL ARTS EDITOR Lanecia Rouse

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Sharon Yao

INTERN Emily Feldman

INTERN Laik Meadows

FOUNDING EDITORS Will Wellman | Nick Babladelis

About EcoTheo Collective

EcoTheo Collective envisions a world in which care for the places we inhabit, the people we encounter, and the lives we lead makes for lasting beauty in art, nature, and community. We pursue this vision through publications, support for creative writers, artists, and theologians, and ways of gathering that embody attention and devotion.


With EcoTheo Review, we publish original poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art, along with book reviews, interviews and scholarly articles that explore our connections and conundrums in nature and faith. Responding to themes from adoration to vulnerability, writers and artists submit work that we select and share through quarterly print editions and in weekly posts on our website. Our work has been a finalist for the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize and received an Amazon Literary Partnership from CLMP.


The Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize supports the publication of a dual-language, artisanal chapbook by a poet with no more than one full-length collection in print. The Prize facilitates various trans-oceanic platforms for this poet to present their work—as a way to celebrate Federico García Lorca’s legacy of friendship across borders, and to globalize Latinx poetry in the 21st century.


Wonder Festival engages the power of literature and contemplative practices to heal and transform, while connecting participants with the sacredness of places that range from the urban topography of Austin to the wild beauty of the Grand Tetons. Over several days of readings, workshops, and guided walks, we commune with one another and the more-than-human world. The festival features lecture by an ecotheologian-in-residence and culminates in a reading by poets and guest judges.


The Desert Poets Project is a collaboration with The Wee House in Alpine, Texas to offer time, space, and financial support to a poet whose work demonstrates a commitment to ecological witness. The Project will recognize the work of diverse poets already working in ecopoetry and develop programming for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ poets who are underrepresented in the field with a well-paid residency in the remarkable geographical surroundings of Far West Texas. 


All our work expresses our values of curiosity, justice, and community. We look forward to your contributions to our Collective.

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Meet Our Leadership

  • Travis Helms

    DIRECTOR EMERITUS, FOUNDER OF LOGOS

    Episcopal priest and Founder + Director of LOGOS. Having served as an Executive Director of EcoTheo Collective from 2020-winter 2024, he is passionate about exploring the connection between theology and the imagination.

  • Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

    PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Cynthia Briggs Kittredge is Dean Emerita and Professor of New Testament at seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. She is the author of A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking: Poems from the Gospel of Mark.

  • Roger Reeves

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Roger Reeves earned his PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award.

  • Natalie Jo Graham

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Natalie Graham earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Florida and Ph.D. in American Studies at Michigan State University.

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  • Shann Ray

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Poet and prose writer Shann Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University, poetry at Stanford, and poetry for the Center for Contemplative Leadership at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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  • Anya Backlund

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Devon Abts

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Devon Abts, PhD, is a scholar of theology and literature currently serving as interim director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC.

  • Spencer Reece

    ADVISORY COUNCIL

    Spencer Reece authored two prize-winning books of poetry, The Clerk's Tale and The Road to Emmaus. He edited an anthology of poems, Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Poetry by the Girls of Our Little Roses, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

  • Allison Seay

    ADVISORY COUNCIL

    Allison Seay is the author of To See the Queen (Persea Books, 2013), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She holds degrees from Mary Washington College and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She serves as chaplain at Saint Michael’s Episcopal School in Richmond, Virginia.

  • Anastacia-Reneé

    ADVISORY COUNCIL

    Anastacia-Reneé is an award-winning cross-genre writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDX speaker and podcaster. Renee is the author of (v.), (Black Ocean Press), Forget It (Black Radish Press) and Answer(Me), (Winged City Chapbook Press).

  • Eugénie Bisulco

    ADVISORY COUNCIL

    Eugénie Bisulco received her undergraduate degree in English and Studio Art from Wellesley College, earning honors in Studio Art and graduating magna cum laude. Later, she received a Master of Arts in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.

  • CMarie Furhman

    ADVISORY COUNCIL