This is a book about bearing life. 

The poems in Unborn are an exploration of family and identity, faith and loss, during the hidden years trying to conceive. They speak of grief for what never was and hope not yet arrived.

Before each poem, you’ll see its embryonic form — the barely shaped phrases that began it. Embodying in public something so often kept secret: the longing and effort to create new life. 

This is an accessible and relatable debut collection. The poems are memoir-like as they wrestle for understanding and community through complicated expectations about family and fertility. Some of them are buoyant; others weigh heavier. All of them seek meaning, connection and peace.

This is Unborn.

Available now in paperback and as an e-book.

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