Amelia L. Williams, PhD, is a medical writer, hiker, and amateur naturalist living in the Rockfish River Valley of Central Virginia. She coordinated The Ties That Bind, A #NoPipelines Collaborative Community Art and Story Project, and her book Walking Wildwood Trail: Poems and Photographs, features an eco-art-poetry trail created to protect landscapes threatened by the now-cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Williams’s poems are forthcoming in The Healing Muse and The Hollins Critic, and have appeared in Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Nimrod International Journal, 3Elements, Journal of Wild Culture, Origins, K’in, and elsewhere. Find more of her work on her website and twitter, @wildinkpoet.