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Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey is a writer and interdisciplinary artist whose work exists at the intersection of literature, environmental theory, and creative practice. They received a Bachelor of Arts from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2024, studying English literature and creative writing, and completed a post-baccalaureate position as Sustainability and Environmental Justice Scholar at the same institution in 2025. Their research interests include ecocriticism, environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecofeminism, technology studies, animal studies, and queer ecology. With written work published widely in literary journals online and in print, they are currently drafting their first novel, which they will be writing during their time as a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center.
RCC Research Project: Machines as Animals, Animals as Machines: In Search of More-than-Human Consciousness
Selected Publications:
- “Jellyfish.” Split Lip Magazine, 14 January 2026. https://splitlipthemag.com/flash/0126/esm-kaplan-kinsey.
- “Houseplants.” Terrain.org, 21 November 2025. https://www.terrain.org/2025/fiction/houseplants/.
- “Everybody Loves the Sunshine.” ANMLY, no. 41 (2025). https://anmly.org/ap41/esme-kaplan-kinsey/.
- “Sum of Parts.” Chestnut Review 7, no. 1 (2025). https://chestnutreview.com/esme-kaplan-kinsey-sum-of-parts/.
- “Posthuman Walks Into a Bar.” Smokelong Quarterly, no. 85 (2024). https://www.smokelong.com/stories/posthuman-walks-into-a-bar/.
- “Tell Me What It Means to Be Human.” The Adroit Journal, no. 51 (2024). https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-one/esme-kaplan-kinsey/.