writing — one wild and precious life

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

– MARY OLIVER

All I’ve ever really wanted to do is write. Perhaps it’s my background in journalism, but I find myself exploring big and sometimes hard questions that will spark or continue conversations - always with a large dose of empathy.

In short: I write book club fiction exploring all sorts of relationships, motherhood, contemporary life, and emotions with themes like class, capitalism, power/privilege, the South, feminism, and of course, sisters. Always sisters.

“Let us tend to the stories that are in us. Let us let go of the stories other people tell themselves.”

– Thea Lim

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

In short: I write book club fiction exploring all sorts of relationships, motherhood, contemporary life, and emotions with themes like class, capitalism, power/privilege, the South, feminism, and of course, sisters. Always sisters.

“Let us tend to the stories that are in us. Let us let go of the stories other people tell themselves.”

layne beckner (greene)

@laynebeckner