Elyse Hauser’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of essays covering her work researching the deep sea in Bergen, Norway in late 2023. In her conversation with curator Nisi Shawl, she discusses how the research she did as a journalist has the potential for creative writing works, how deep sea ecosystems can look like cities, and the different methods of deep sea mining. “I would like people to think a little more deeply I suppose, pun intended, about the ocean and our relationship to it . . . to think and maybe have a little curiosity for how things live in these really remote places.”

Music by EarthtoneSkytone, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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