writing the sacred & wild
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Eileen Elizabeth is a writer, editor, and educator whose work explores the sacred and wild—the places where ecology, ritual, literature, and belief meet.
She is the author of Carrying the Bones: Rituals for a Dying World. Carrying the Bones braids memoir, cultural criticism, and poetics to ask how we might mourn meaningfully in an era of environmental crisis and loss.
Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Bellevue Literary Review, Joyland, Pangyrus, and elsewhere.
Eileen Elizabeth is the cofounder of Boshemia Magazine and the creator of Storybloom, a literary salon, writing community, and editorial studio.
She is at work on her second book, A Coastal Imaginary, exploring marine ecology and the myths that gather around sea creatures and coastal life.
Praise for Carrying the Bones
A love song to grief that spans from the California mountains to the Appalachians. Elizabeth weaves storytelling, poetry, and research together in a fine tapestry of remembrance.
~Travis Rountree, author of Hillsville Remembered: Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia's Most Notorious Shoot-Out
Elizabeth's hybrid approach creates a refreshing, intriguing, and valuable perspective on loss and mortality.
~Rae Garringer, editor of To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers
Eileen Elizabeth is an extraordinary writer—one whose sentences carry both weight and wonder. In Carrying the Bones, she blends essay and poetry with remarkable control, braiding personal loss with a searching exploration of how humans mourn across time and culture.
~Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth