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Summer 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 3 • Extinction |

A Disappearance

By noam keim

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noam keim is a trauma worker, medicine maker, and flâneur freak living in Philadelphia. Their nonfiction writing weaves themes close to their heart: reverence for the land, healing, queerness, colonialism, plants, and abolition. They are a 2022 Lambda Fellow, a 2023 Roots. Wounds. Words. Fellow, a 2023 Tin House Fellow, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Contributor in 2023, and a 2023 Periplus Fellow. Their first essay collection, The Land Is Holy, won the Megaphone Prize, judged by Hanif Abdurraqib, and came out via Radix Media in May 2024. Connect with keim on X and Instagram @thelandisholy or at the landisholy.com.

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