With bookends of a lunar calling and an earthly reminder, HAMPI chronicles a fantastical journey of recovering one’s buried parts to embrace the blessings of ancestral medicine. Concocted between the United States, Ecuador, and Peru, its photography captures the beauty of these heart homes. Its writing in English, Spanish, and Quechua features lessons from sacred guides, gone ancestors, and other loved ones on the journey to a fuller kind of bravery.
River Coello (they/them) is a storyteller and changemaker. With a focus on inclusion, River has spoken on themes of intersectionality and justice at prestigious universities and various organizations in North America and Europe. They hold fellowships from Lambda Literary, the New Leaders Council, Education Pioneers, and the Helmsley Charitable Trust. They are a graduate of the Universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and Ohio. They are based out of Orlando, Florida, where they are growing as a social researcher and deepening their creative practice. They are proudly Andean (Ecuadorian-American), qhariwarmi (two-spirit), and disabled. -Publisher
