Coming April 2026!
A truth-teller’s lyrical guide through the storm, breaking silence, breaking rules, and lighting the way out.
Sarah Hanson’s work sits at the intersection of poetry, memoir, and testimony. She is not just telling her own story, she is expanding the cultural space women have to be survivors, and insisting that their imperfect, messy, resilient truths are enough.
About Sarah
Author, poet, and truth-teller. Sarah writes hard truths beautifully, offering stories of survival, resilience, and hope. Her debut memoir-in-verse, Conjuring the Hurricane, arrives April 2026.
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Reviews of Sarah Hanson's Poetry
"Sarah Hanson's poems flash and cut like unsheathed knives in this important, memorable collection. As she writes her way out of the horrors of domestic violence and into the realm of hard-earned freedom, she pulls the reader's heart along with her. I can't remember the last time I cared so much, and felt so invested in, a new author."
Elizabeth Gilbert, best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic
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Edited by Sarah Hanson, Shaking off the Ashes is a compelling anthology that showcases 59 previously unpublished poems from a diverse group of neurodivergent and neurotypical poets. Each poem delves into the nonlinear, often unpredictable journey of healing wounds that leave deep, invisible scars—those that can never be fully erased.
Through a range of voices and styles, the poets offer intimate reflections on the complexities of returning to oneself after pain, loss, or trauma.
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