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My New Poetry Book is Coming Soon!

I Promise I TriedPoetry for Losing & Finding YourselfAvailable to pre-order now

I Promise I Tried is a searingly passionate poetry collection exploring the power of telling the whole truth in hard times. These words will stoke your audacity to not just survive but thrive in the tension between hope and grief, curiosity and fear, and love and loss. 

These poems carry you on a healing journey through the minefields and miracles of being a human living with a heart thrown wide open.

In addition to the book’s four sections that delve into curiosity, grief, courage, and love, enjoy poems that examine themes of motherhood, mental health, current events, and creativity.

Part revelation, part celebration, and wholly penned with power, this exhilarating and encouraging collection will tend your wounds, fire up your fearlessness, and leave you cheering for the endurance of love.

I Promise I Tried is coming December 2022 for Kindle and as a limited edition signed paperback!

I am offering signed paperback copies — but only for a limited time, and only via pre-order. You can reserve your exclusive signed paperback edition HERE, or pre-order your Kindle ebook edition HERE.

I’m SO excited to share this new book of poems with you. I know I always say this about new books . . . but I’m extra proud of this one. It has my whole heart in it. I hope it nourishes, heals, and inspires you.

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New Affirmation Art Printable!

Spice up your art journaling, card-making, or scrapbooking with a brand new art paper pack of vividly painted affirmations.

The artsy elements in my instantly downloadable art paper packs are pulled directly from my own painting and art journals.

My collage paper PDFs are 100% unique and unable to be found anywhere else! Use them again and again.

All you need is paper and a printer (or a local print shop!) and you’re on your way to invigorating your art practice with these inspiring and original collage papers.

Instantly download the packs from the art shop and start creating!

And! Get 25% off any one art shop order by subscribing to the She of the Wild newsletter list HERE .

to the art shop!

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How to Find Hope While Falling

How to Find Hope While FallingA Poem for Election Day 2022 READ IT

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Art journaling printables!

Are you looking for an affordable way to spice up your art journaling?

Add one-of-a-kind designs to your card-making?

Lend color to your scrapbooking?

I’ve got you covered with two brand new instantly downloadable packs of unique collage papers!

The artsy elements in these two packs are pulled directly from my own painting and art journals.

There are two packs available. One pack is dedicated to faces and figures, complemented by other decorative bits of ephemera. The other pack is all about colorfully created quotes and pretty painted background scraps.

These packs are 100% unique and unable to be found anywhere else! Use them again and again.

All you need is paper and a printer (or a local print shop!) and you’re on your way to invigorating your art practice with these inspiring and original collage papers.

Instantly download the packs from the art shop and start creating!

And! Get 25% off any one art shop order by subscribing to the She of the Wild newsletter list HERE .

to the art shop!

First time we’re meeting? Click here to subscribe my newsletter & receive a FREE copy of Ordinary Miracles, my short but mighty collection of poetry:

New Handmade Art Drop! {Shop Update}

New art. In my Etsy.

Some spooky, some not.

All of it great for gifting.

And you know that time of the year — the aggressive gifting time — is fast coming upon us.

You also know that shipping continues to be wonky, in spite of everyone’s best efforts.

So! Snag a keepsake handmade fabric art piece for yourself, or for a loved one’s holiday gift, and get it in plenty of time to wrap and put under the tree.

(Did anyone else just shudder at the mention of putting ANYTHING under the tree weeks before Halloween? Or was it just me? *shudders again*)

All this to say that there’s an exclusive new drop of hand-stitched fabric hoops in my Etsy, and they won’t stay there for long.

Free shipping in the domestic USA on many items!

Shop the art

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Learn to Paint in This Free Art Course!

A free mixed media art e-courseStart Making Art TodayFree to watch on YouTube!

Everyone has the ability to make beautiful art -- most of us just need a little guidance to get started.

Enter Start Making Art Today. I created this online class in response to the many, many people who love art of all kinds, who love the idea of MAKING art, but always count themselves out before they even try.

"I wish I could do that," they sigh, "but I don't have an artistic bone in my body. I have no real talent."

But what is "real talent" anyway? Why don't we just have fun making art?

Start Making Art Today allows you to do that. This is a six part beginner-friendly experience. It's a no-stress, simple to understand, and fun video guide to get you creating. Yep, today.

The course is out now and free to enjoy on YouTube!Start painting!

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Stitching Up My Missing Pieces

I grew up going to fabric shops.

My mother was (and continues to be) a maker of the fiber arts: quilting, sewing, doll dress-making, crocheting, knitting…she loves anything involving yarn or thread

We spent a lot of time in fabric and craft stores, as crafters tend to do. I’d tag along, loving all the many different fabrics and patterns, textures, and colors.

But I was never a quilter. Or a crocheter. Or a costumer Or a knitter.

I tried to be. I wanted to be.

But it was all too detailed, too meticulous for me.

I was too messy, too fast — too much.

At least, that’s what I thought until this summer, when I discovered a new-to-me art form: fabric collage.

It’s a combination of embroidery, needlepoint, and quilting…but much more forgiving. For me at least.

And it can be fast.
And messy.

And it makes me think…maybe I wasn’t too much at all. Maybe I just hadn’t found a fiber arts form that clicked with my mind.

Fabric collage has.
I’m completely enchanted with it, creating little magical hoops and somewhat larger mountainscapes out of all that fabric I used to adore when I was younger but didn’t know what to do with.

This feels like coming home.

Fun. Exciting. Beautiful. Cozy.
I’m not sure where this is going, exactly, but one thing is certain: I’m so grateful.

Want to check out the hoops in my shop? Click here!

Want to see my process? I’ve got videos posted over on my Instagram !

Free to Read in Kindle Unlimited...

Everything We Never KnewA suspenseful new novelOut now in print & Kindle Unlimited!

A motherless child. His grieving father. The cemetery where catastrophe comes calling once more…

His mother’s death has left ten-year-old Nat with too many questions that have no answers — until he discovers her journal.

With the help of his new friend, Dee, Nat dodges his cemetery caretaker father and dives into the journal only to find himself facing an assault of hard truths about his mother’s mental health that threaten to break him.

When Nat’s world existence shatters into explosive grief, will it bring him and his father together, or will it only cause new wounds that are all the harder to heal — with Dee caught in the crossfire?

Everything We Never Knew is a suspenseful, heartfelt, and lyrically written story about grief, perfectly imperfect friendship and family, and the complications that can rise from a woman secretly struggling with mental illness, alone.

*Content warning: eating disorders, miscarriage/babyloss

Everything We Never Knew is out now in print & Kindle Unlimited!Start reading!

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A Free Book of Poetry to Nourish Your Soul

Need soulful sustenance?My petite poetry collection, Ordinary Miracles , is free for you to download and enjoy via StoryOrigin!

Ordinary Miracles is a short but powerful collection of poetry to ground you, encourage you, and arm you with the strength to keep living whole in this world that is too often so hard.

Bold but kind, honest but gentle, real but hopeful, this book is a balm for the soul, brimming with everyday yet extraordinary magic.

Download your free copy!

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A Poem a Day to Stir your Soul

Get a poem a day(ish) on Patreon! A daily-ish poetry practice to nourish your aching heart

I’ve felt so lost.

Maybe (probably?) you too. 

The last two (seven) (ten) (infinity) years have been a LOT. 

The world is shifting beneath our feet. And while this has likely been happening for a long while, most of us are only now beginning to feel it.

We are dizzy. Exhilarating. Terrified. [Insert your prevalent emotion here.]

This is okay.

This is normal.

This is a logical reaction to illogical times.

That doesn’t make it easy…but at least it makes sense.

We’re living the history that was taught to us as children, the history that was a warning, a morality tale of sorts, an education in the ways humanity should not go.

And now we are watching so many humans go exactly that way, and our brains and hearts are breaking.

I don’t have any answers.

But I do have poetry.

This is for you, and this is also for me. (Honesty is important.)

I wish that my words could knit together the wounds of loss and confusion and fear and and and that so many of us have been dealt these last years.

I know they can’t. Not really. Not in the ways that matter when your home is getting sold out from beneath you. 

(Even though I believe that words can heal.)

(We can hold both truths at once.)

And yet, I also know/feel/believe that my poems are the best that I have to offer this fractured world.

I have poetry books, yes. But I want to give you more. I want to give the world more. I want to give you more.

I’ve started posting poems on my Patreon. Five poems a week, 2-3 of those being brand new poems and 2-3 of those being older ones. 

This is helping me write.

This accountability is helping me do the work that I am best at.

Maybe it will help you too. I don’t know. I hope it will, but I don’t know. We can all only hope for the best.

So there it is. A ministry of poetry. $3 USD a month for approximately twenty-five poems per month to nurture your heart and mind and soul and all those hurting parts. A non-religious devotional practice of sorts.

Let us come together and see what words can do. 

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