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Explore Themes of Our Library
Each category reflects a recurring theme in the work we publish. These themes act as entry points for getting to know our authors and mission. Whether through intimate witness, careful attention to place, deep reflection on spirit beyond doctrine, or poetic attention to lived experience, if you’re looking for a way in, start here.
Survival & Transformation
Books that explore survival not as triumph, but as endurance—grief, rupture, recovery, and the long interior work of becoming whole after loss.
Landscape as Companion
Writing in which place is not backdrop but presence. Land, wilderness, and rural edges act as witnesses holding memory, grief, and transformation when language alone cannot.
Contemplation & Spirit Beyond Doctrine
Reflections on spirituality, ethics, and interior life that resist prescription. These works engage faith, doubt, ritual, and silence without allegiance to institutional belief.
Poetry & Experience
Poetry and lyric prose that privileges voice, attention, and embodiment. These works trust language as a way of knowing and presence as a form of truth.
featured authors

Kashawn Taylor
Author of subhuman.

Emilie Lygren
Author, Once I Was a Stone

Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Author, Another Mother Does Not Come When Your's Dies

Chris La Tray
Contributor, Stories from the Trail

Rebecca Brenner
Author, Paper House

Theodore Richards
Author, What Happened to Icarus

Will Falk
Author, How Dams Fall

Matthew E. Henry
Author, Promises to Keep

Ft Thomas Keating
Award-winning author of Open Mind, Open Heart

Jeff Darren Muse
Author, Dear Park Ranger

Michael Curran-Dorsano
Author, Where the Dead Poets Sing

Heather Durham
Author, Sylvan Crone
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