MEDIA | TEDx TALK | INTERVIEWS
"Reading the same book at the same time:
Annual reading project announces this year's book"
from WLTX News 19 in Columbia, SC
"I believe that once we begin committing to our own creative paths, the universe co-creates with us.
Just one look at the trees blossoming in the spring tells us that this is a creative universe with its own creative cycles, and I've found, in my own life and in the lives of my clients, that once we start to nurture ourselves creatively, we get hints and signs that we are being supported in our work."
READ MORE
TEDx Talk, "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering, and Making Meaning"
"We are living in a time when many people feel increasingly worried about the environment — we can see the effects of climate change in our own neighborhoods as more people experience floods, storms, fires, and droughts that affect their homes, jobs, and lives.
At the same time, people are seeing the need to take care of themselves in creative ways in order to deal with such anxiety and stress."
READ MORE
"Blossom" poemsong featured on South Carolina ETV's Palmetto Scene
"As a trauma scholar I have studied the ways writing can be instrumental in helping us heal from trauma — and our history with nature can be seen as a traumatic history of violence and objectification."
READ MORE
"Finding Laura and L.D."
Winner of The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize from the Poetry Society of South Carolina
Recorded at the Site of the Lynching in Okemah, Oklahoma
Winner of The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize from the Poetry Society of South Carolina
Recorded at the Site of the Lynching in Okemah, Oklahoma
"It seemed to me that I needed that sense of a context – the tree outside my window or the birds in the trees in the middle of the city – to give me the courage to tell the truth in my writing. Nature was a witness that allowed me to feel heard even when the words had not yet been shared."
READ MORE
Interview about Beaver Girl with author Cassie Premo Steele
on "A Word?" Wednesday
hosted by Kellie Scott-Reed of Roi Fainéant Press
on "A Word?" Wednesday
hosted by Kellie Scott-Reed of Roi Fainéant Press