Radical wonder is the path to peace. It’s only through viewing the world and its people through the lens of banality that you can harm it. Radical wonder does not need to be positive. You can marvel at the hope or horror or anything in between, but we’re not interested in seeing it as mundane.

Editors Bios and Links

Ann Brantingham is an editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. She is a nature artist focusing on local flora and fauna. She teaches art at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Her work, featured at the dA Center for the Arts, The Sasse Museum, the Progress Gallery, and the Chautauqua Art Gallery, explores leaves and other natural elements in graphite on a small scale in order to experience the physicality of a branch or single leaf. Her hope is that through experiencing the environment around them, people will see that we have more similarities than differences and that through nature, we can find our peace. You can see her work at annbrantingham.com.

Jane Edberg is a poet and artist. She has a Masters of Fine Arts from UC Davis, has taught creatives for over 40 years and currently works as a writing coach and editor. She is the author of the art illuminated memoir, The Fine Art of Grieving, published by Linen Press Books, 2024. Her work can be found in the following books, My Dead, Kelsey Books, 2024; in the flash anthology, 42 Stories, BAM 2024; Death, and it’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: Field Notes from The Death Dialogues Project, Motina Books 2022; and in various literary journals. Her art has been exhibited worldwide. Jane lives in California with her husband and poodle, Oliver (as in Mary Oliver).

John Wheway’s publications include A Bluebottle in Late October, V Press (2020); Poems in New Measure, Stand, Magma, Warwick Review, Poetry Review, the Yellow Nib, Poetry Quarterly, Compass Magazine, South Word, Agenda, McQueens Quinterly, High Window, And Other Poems, three Templar anthologiesand The Echoing Gallery from Redcliffe Press; flash fiction in Flash Flood, Ad Hoc Fiction anthologies, Fictive Dream and Ellipsis-Zine; The Green Table of Infinity, pamphlet from Anvil Press; Poborden, a novella, from Faber. He has a Creative Writing MA with distinction from Bath Spa University. Website: John Wheway.com

John Brantingham is the general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He is the recipient of a New York State Arts Council grant and was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has twenty-two books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He is professor emeritus at Mt. San Antonio College where he directed the creative writing program for 25 years. Check out his work at johnbrantingham.com.