Juniper

Nathalie Schmid is an award-winning Swiss writer. She is author of several books, including Gletscherstück (Wolfbach Verlag, 2019), from which “News” and “Juniper” are excerpted, and Ein anderes Wort für einverstanden (Gans Verlag, 2025). After graduating from high school, Schmid traveled through North and Central America, attended a mountain farm school, studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, and trained as an adult educator and secondary-school teacher. Today, she writes poetry and prose, teaches German as a foreign language, and leads writing courses. Schmid lives in Baden, Switzerland.

Ellene Glenn Moore is an American writer living in Zürich. She is the author of How Blood Works (Kent State University Press, 2021), winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Passage: An Essay (Orison Books, 2025), winner of the Orison Chapbook Prize. Ellene’s poetry, prose, and translation work have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Find her at elleneglennmoore.com.