Meet the Author
Courtney Jett Walker spent half of her childhood on the Blue Ridge Parkway and the other half in the historic town of Orange, Virginia. It was a childhood filled with family, nature, and all-things-quintessential-eighties. These places and experiences informed in her a deep sense of family and surroundings, community and aloneness, and attention to detail. Her love of poetry developed at a young age when she learned, almost as soon as she could write, that nothing describes what you see and feel quite like a poem. Now raising four children of her own in small-town Virginia, she wishes to instill in them the freedom to experience the world both together and alone, as a way of holding on and letting go of what it is to be human. Courtney lives in Scottsville, Virginia with her husband, four children, two dogs, one cat, six chickens, two goats, and one beloved blue betta fish.
Details
Format: Paperback
Pages: 56
ISBN: 978-1-962416-39-9
Release date: November 12, 2024
Endorsements
“This slim volume of thirty-one personal observations (mostly about ordinary domestic issues like marriage and motherhood) brings with it a welcome dose of skill and panache that makes it more than meditation. Walker’s writing is sometimes lyrical, sometimes surprising (as when she has to remind herself that she loves the baby, and no, she’s not really going to throw him out the window), sometimes simply the passionate love letter to her family at its core.”
—Ellyn Bache, award-winning author of nine novels including Safe Passage and winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize
“Inspirations about Love and Mothering, Divine and Otherwise. A word bath of imagery evoking worshipful submersion in Nature, simple and profound. To the question, ‘Where do we come from?’ she answers, ‘I wish you waves crashing out loud the sound of Peace.’ A worthy collection.”
—Beth Larson Sherk, teacher, playwright, and novelist; author of The River’s Bend
