Nastassja Noell

Nastassja Noell is a lichenologist who struggles to stay within the fenced pastures of science. Her fiction first appeared in Dark Mountain’s ABYSS and she is a recipient of the United Plant Savers’ Deep Ecology Artists Fellowship. She has led lichen biodiversity research projects throughout the Americas, co-authored the book Delmarva Lichens (Torrey), and her writing has appeared in scientific journals as well as Radical Mycology, Patagon Journal, and NW Travel. Nastassja lives in the Southern Appalachians, in a cove forest that whispers stories while she sleeps.

My Posts

Staying with the Trouble (with Lichens)

Nastassja Noell

13th November, 2024

Fellow lichenologist and artist Nastassja Noell reviews 'The Lichen Musuem' by A. Laurie Palmer and its transdisciplinary approach to lichen biology, ecology and biomorphic patterns for equitable, thriving futures.

Book Reviews The Plant Practice

Mother Rhus

Nastassja Noell

22nd March, 2023

In the third post in our new series The Plant Practice, artist and lichenologist Nastassja Noell has a dramatic and transformative encounter with poison ivy in the South Appalachian forest

The Plant Practice

Spaces Between Branches

Nastassja Noell

20th July, 2022

For our Under the Canopy series: Lichenologist Nastassja Noell takes her paint box into the forest and perceives our relationship with trees and life from a radically different perspective

Under the Canopy