We Are Wanderers by Hannah Elizabeth King

Hannah Elizabeth King's debut collection of poetry, We Are Wanderers, spans a decade of time, bearing witness to the journey of human experience. Through the lens of the heart, you will read through the valleys and mountaintops of love, memory, birth and death, motherhood, grief and healing. Chronicling the evolution of becoming a woman, from daughter to mother, discovering the nature within and around us, and finding home in the wild places of existence: body, spirit, and the earth and universe surrounding.

As I grow, I am losing separation between worlds. I am water and sky, the soil and stone is within me. We carry it all and are carried.

This book is testimony of the wandering, walking the uncertainty with surrender, curiosity and expression. The sun sets into dusk and the dark night settles, dawn comes again and we rise with the light.

Hannah King is an Oregon native, born at the feet of the Siskiyou Mountains. Raised on river water, wild grass and oak savanna, exploring the rural environments of home was her childhood nurturing. She carries the blood of indigenous ancestors, flower farmers, writers, teachers, landscape painters. These threads are expressed through her writings, art and daily work out in the flower fields.

Cultivating connection and relationship with her local community and environment through stewardship of the land, gorgeous bouquets, and the written word, her voice of poetry and earth tending is a call to slow down, sink in and get to know the depth of love that exists within and around us. She moved north to fertile Willamette Valley and fell in love with the expansive views, meandering waterways and lush coast range. She is mother of two, rooted and alive in Corvallis, Oregon.

We Are Wanderers is her first published book of poetry.