Faculty, students, and alumnx of the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts are the creators of Hunger Mountain. HM’s editors share VCFA’s belief that the arts are central to the human experience and have the ability not only to reflect [reality] but also to create it. We, techno-extended humans, curate the world for ourselves and others amidst an increasing awareness that eating and breathing mean becoming-with the animal, viral, fungal, and mineral worlds. Literary art and how we present it matters. In this issue, we aim to exhibit a beast worthy of our times—a glorious monster that demands complexity, worships diversity, and transcends linguistic limitations. We hope the boundaries grow pores and the narrative threads tangle. We hope—as readers and writers and thinkers—you find this collection as wildly permissive and innovative as we do. Welcome, fellow Hybrid, to Issue 29.