Finding My Way Home

by Heidi Seaborn

Heidi Seaborn started writing poetry in 2016 and has quickly gained national recognition for her fresh voice and the lyrical quality she brings to writing about to life's experiences. With her debut poetry chapbook, Finding My Way Home, Seaborn explores what it means to be lost, to feel loss and to undertake the journey to find the people, history and place that embodies home. With her mastery of verbs, embedding action into her writing, these poems will take you places. In her Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize semi-finalist poem "Family Secrets," Seaborn has us climbing trees, crawling over driftwood and digging to China. We don't just learn how to hold a heart and how to survive hypothermia, we experience heartlessness, the burn of coming back to life. In these poems, we feel the loss of a father and the end of a marriage, the wail of childbirth and death of small creatures. The duality of pain and pleasure, cruelty and humor, beauty and violence are threaded throughout Seaborn's poems. Finding My Way Home is a poetic roadmap for the heart's journey through loss to discover home.

42 pages, Paperback

Published March 16, 2018

About the author

Heidi Seaborn wrote poetry as a teenager then pursued a career as a communications executive, serving as Chief Communications Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the European CEO for a major global communications firm and elsewhere. She moved 27 times, raised three children, divorced, remarried and then after a 40-year hiatus, returned to poetry in 2016. Since then, she’s authored two full-length collections of poetry, including PANK Books 2020 Poetry Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press, 2019) and three chapbooks of poetry including the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks (2021), as well as Finding My Way Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Once a Diva (dancing girl press, 2021). She’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry, Brevity, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Financial Times, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Washington Post and elsewhere. She is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU and a BA from Stanford University. After living all over the world, she now resides in her hometown of Seattle.