"A must-have poetry collection that will ignite a flame within you and set your soul on fire." — Amber Rae, bestselling author of Choose Wonder Over Worry
All aboard this bullet train to everything we've ever wanted and worked for and deserved. We're charging loud and proud and strong. Don't you feel this motion? This might? Come with us. Grace + Oak, a fresh collection of over 100 brand-new poems paired with elegant photographs, is a love letter to women who are pursuing their passions. Moving words and images will empower you to discover your strengths, reach for your dreams, and achieve your goals. A stirring combination of the inspirational and the aspirational, this beautiful book is one that you will want to treasure and share.
"In the manner that stars, when collapsing, are often breaking down into supernovas, so, too, do our lives often fall apart right before our most vital awakening. What Kristin Helms and Meg Stone have created here is simply that: the awakening." — Brianna Wiest, author of 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think
Kristin Helms is the author of Grace + Oak: Inspiration in Poetry and Photographs from Dover Publications (2020), and From Boardroom to Baby from Career Press/RedWheel Weiser (2018).
Her fiction has been published in Creation Literary Magazine and LitBreak Literary Journal, and her non-fiction can be found in Literary Mama, Home & Garden Magazine, Motherly, and HuffPost.
Kristin's first manuscript won runner-up in the romance/women's fiction category for Book Pipeline's 2023 Unpublished Contest.
Her essay, Unraveled and Awake, was selected as one of the most compelling essays for the San Diego Library’s Decameron Project and chosen to be performed by an actor from Write Out Loud.