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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

Kashawn Taylor

Author of subhuman.

Emilie Lygren

Emilie Lygren

Author, Once I Was a Stone

Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Mubanga Kalimamukwento

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

Chris La Tray

Chris La Tray

Contributor, Stories from the Trail

Rebecca Brenner

Rebecca Brenner

Author, Paper House

Theodore Richards

Theodore Richards

Author, What Happened to Icarus

Will Falk

Will Falk

Author, How Dams Fall

Matthew E. Henry

Matthew E. Henry

Author, Promises to Keep

Ft Thomas Keating

Ft Thomas Keating

Award-winning author of Open Mind, Open Heart

Jeff Darren Muse

Jeff Darren Muse

Author, Dear Park Ranger

Michael Curran-Dorsano

Michael Curran-Dorsano

Author, Where the Dead Poets Sing

Heather Durham

Heather Durham

Author, Sylvan Crone

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