Finding Her by Kristie L. Williams

$14.99

As I read Finding Her, I ache for the woman in this epistolary collection, and for myself: a woman also on this mending journey: trusting the psyche and belly of my forties, “not pregnant and not even almost flat,” to be enough. Through meticulously relayed moments of real life—yoga pants and gym glitz, eradication of time barriers synchronizing what was and what is, Kristie Williams narrates the way we hold all the identities we’ve worn. The way we sometimes slog ahead heavy with doubt until realizing the only way to anywhere worth going means going back. Retrieving and praising the most sacred dear parts of ourselves we left behind is the only path to trusting who we have become.

–Angela Dribben Author of Every Girl

Finding Her is one woman’s journey to define herself on her own terms. It is a peek into the mind of a complex woman who works to overcome other’s inability to see that we are all disabled by flawed perceptions. We are human. We are welcomed. We are baptised and buried. And when we arrive on the other side, we are reborn. As she says: “…I am me That is enough.”

–Marlon Carey, Author of Lazarus, Providence, RI – May 2021

Kristie L. Williams’ debut chapbook Finding Her is an ambitious collection. She’s a master at finding the humor in our human condition, and at the same time, finding the depth in the seemingly mundane. Williams balances wit and woe and doesn’t turn away or blink in her honest writing. Just listen to a line from her poem “Watching You Undress Me (A Love Letter To Body Image),” where she writes, “imperfect beauty is comfortable in its own skin.”

–Malaika King Albrecht Author of The Stumble Fields

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Finding Her

by Kristie L. Williams

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-936-7

2022

Kristie L. Williams’ debut chapbook Finding Her is a carefully curated collection. Her poems seek the center of self, ask the hard questions, and listen for the many answers that arise with life lessons. Each of these lessons explore a unique strength found in what it means to be feminine. As each page turns, these poems are friends you’d tell your secrets to and whose advice you’d actually take.

Kristie L. Williams – received a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Saint Andrews Presbyterian College and a MAEd. in Adult Education at East Carolina University.

Her Forthcoming chapbook titled Finding Her will be published by Finishing Line Press later this year.

She has been previously published by Main Street Rag, Dan River Review, Cairn, Maximum Tilt Solstice Anthology and Madness Muse Press and Hermit Feathers Review and Heron Clan 8.

When she’s not playing with words, she is using her own story of quadriplegia and cerebral palsy to advocate for herself and others with disabilities, participating in adaptive recreation, creating mixed media art, reading great books, and going to rock concerts.

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