Scenes of human diminishment in early American natural history / Christoph Irmscher -- Slavery and the anthropocene / Paul Outka -- (In)conceivable futures : Henry David Thoreau and reproduction's queer ecology / Sarah Ensor -- Narrating animal extinction from the pleistocene to the anthropocene / Timothy Sweet -- Pastoral reborn in the anthropocene : Henry David Thoreau to Kyle Powys Whyte / Wai Chee Dimock -- The heat of modernity : The great Gatsby as petrofiction / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- Children in transit/children in peril : the contemporary US novel in a time of climate crisis / Min Hyoung Song -- Meta-critical climate change fiction : Claire Vaye Watkins's Gold fame citrus / Rick Crownshaw -- Junk food for thought : decolonizing diets in Tommy Pico's poetry / Nicole Seymour -- Tender woods : looking for the Black outdoors with Dawoud Bey / Susan Scott Parrish -- Urban narrative and the futures of biodiversity / Ursula Heise -- Japanese American incarceration and the turn to earth : looking for a man named Komako in Bad day at Black Rock / Mika Kennedy -- Leisure over Labor : Latino outdoors and the production of a Latinx outdoor recreation identity / Sarah D. Wald -- Sanctuary : literature and the colonial politics of protection / Matt Hooley -- The queer restoration poetics of Audre Lorde / Angela Hume.