Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances

by Scott Edward Anderson

Falling Up is a moving personal essay about the struggle to become an authentic, vulnerable, purpose-driven man in the 21st century and, ultimately, about making one’s dream a reality. Along the way, award-winning poet, Scott Edward Anderson learns to see the world anew through the eyes of his children, through a deep engagement with the natural world, and through learning—and teaching others—to tell stories in a more personal way. Falling Up is a late bloomer’s coming-of-age story as much as it is a book about choice, intention, and commitment.

37 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 10, 2019

About the author

Scott Edward Anderson is the author of AZOREAN SUITE/SUITE AÇORIANA (2020), FALLING UP: A Memoir of Second Chances (Homebound Publications, 2019), DWELLING: an ecopoem (Shanti Arts, 2018), FALLOW FIELD (Aldrich Press, 2013), and WALKS IN NATURE’S EMPIRE (Countryman Press, 1995). He has been a Concordia Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and received the Nebraska Review Award. His poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, The Wayfarer, and two anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in basalt, The Bloomsbury Review, Cleaver, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. For many years, he has worked in conservation, social enterprise, and clean energy consulting with such organizations as The Nature Conservancy, Ashoka, VerdeStrategy, and EY. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Samantha, and their blended family.

Visit him at scottedwardanderson.com