Digging Up Bones: Reflections on Trauma & Recovery

A stunning anthology that shines light on difficult experiences often relegated to the dark. Instead of turning away, this courageous group of authors share their diverse experiences of challenge—and growth. There is nothing linear here. Just steps forward, sideways, and back, along complex, messy, beautiful paths. These 41 incredibly moving essays will leave you deeply inspired. Oh, to dig—and to see what blossoms.

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Praise for Digging Up Bones

“What if you went to a cocktail party full of strangers. Instead of talking about your day jobs, each guest opens their heart, speaking their deepest truths. You forget to eat the canapes or sip the Cosmopolitans. And when you step out again into the harried street, you know that your own humanity is vastly enlarged. Digging Up Bones is such a party.”

–Meg Richman, author of Freya the Deer

“Digging up the Bones is an astonishing collection of how trauma unravels the world of the body and the landscape of the mind, and how storytelling remakes the world. A perfect book for anyone who lives in a body, which is to say, for everyone.

–Emily Rapp Black, author of The Still Point of the Turning World and I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truthtelling

“The pieces in Digging Up Bones are an outstanding template for any writer struggling to transform pain into language, as well as a refuge for any survivor seeking recognition in the collective.”

–Gina Frangello, MA in Counseling Psychology and author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason

“The voices collected here tell hard stories … and each of these writers makes space for readers to step in and tell their own stories, practice screaming, and find healing. Together, we pull our stories into the light.”

–Jill Christman, Author of The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir & Co-Editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative

Digging Up Bones: Reflections on Trauma & Recovery

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