Palmheart Press

Jena Favinger is a writer and visual artist. She was a participant in AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship, Bread Loaf Environmental Conference, and Tin House Summer Workshop. Her poetry has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, SWWIM, North American Review, and Black Fox Literary Magazine and her travel writing has been featured on hipcamp.com and she-explores.com. Her article “Let’s Inspire Kids to Save the Planet” was selected by the Florida Keys Council of the Arts to be featured in the 2025 issue of Culture Magazine. Her digital photomontage, “Relative Dichotomy” was selected to be in the Anne McKee Fine Art Auction, 2024. 

Jodie Cerra is an ocean-loving educator, storyteller, and adventurer who finds herself equally at home in a classroom, a hammock forest, or on a soccer field. She’s currently the Executive Director of Florida Bay Forever, where she spends her days connecting people of all ages with the wild beauty (and urgent needs) of Florida Bay and the Everglades. Her path has been anything but ordinary: she’s guided students through marine science at MarineLab, worked as a social worker with Wesley House Family Services, and even hosted campers under the stars at Cedar Breaks National Monument. Each job, big or small, added to the way she sees the world: full of people, stories, and connections.

Valerie Perreault is a poet and visual artist. She is the winner of the 2026 Scotti Merrill Award, selected by former US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins and the 2024 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry and her book, Neon Pastoral, was published October 2025. She is a scholarship recipient to the Palm Beach Poetry Festival and The Fine Arts Work Center. Recent writing can be found in Zone3, Swamp Ape Review, Bluestem, Delmarva Review and Orange Coast Review. Her visual art lives in private collections across the globe and has been featured in GOOP, Hia Magazine, Buzzfeed and PBS Art Loft, among others. She also has permanent installations in several high-end resorts and public spaces.