Esther Mathieu writes and makes photographs, collages, books, illustrations, and more.

They are a writer and artist from Queens, New York, currently based in Salt Lake City, where they are pursuing a Masters in Science in Environmental Humanities. Esther graduated in 2017 from Colby College with honors in an Independent Major in Environmental Planning, Media, and Design. Esther's written and photographic work has appeared in the Poets of Queens Anthology, New Directions Anthology of Literary and Visual Arts, Troubadour, the Colby Echo, the Pequod, Young Poets Speak Out, and the Cambridge Tradition. Esther's first collection of poetry, Constellations, was published by Hunt and Light in 2015. Their photographic series Hallowed Ground, a series of cyanotype self-portraits exploring the ways in which their experience of mental illness has shaped her interactions with the world, was exhibited as a part of the Senior Exhibition at the Colby Museum of Art in 2017, and their series Archive was featured in the Save Our Great Salt Lake Show at 2006! A Space Oddity in February 2023.

Esther served as Artist-in-Residence at the Taft-Nicholson Center in Summer 2023.