LOOK UP! by JEN PAYNE
“A master at storytelling, Jen Payne brings us to the realization that the stories she shares are actually ours.”
Mary O’Connor, author, Life Is Full of Sweet Spots and Dreams of a Wingless Child
FROM MY BUTTON BOX by JUDITH BRUDER
“There’s a gracious tenacity to these essays, an elegant insistence that meaning can be found amid loss, whether of a dear husband of fifty-eight years, or of sustaining companionship during a pandemic, or of a seemingly endless future in an octogenarian’s life.”
Robert Braile, a former book critic for The Boston Globe
EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING by JEN PAYNE
“An unflinching account of our unshakeable relationship to the modern world around us, God, nature, and ourselves.”
David W. Berner, Author & NPR Contributor
“Jen Payne’s writings also underscore our role as stewards and the positive impact we can make on the world around us.”
Peter Raymond, Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
“The poems in Evidence of Flossing are a brilliantly incisive commentary on our simultaneous human sense of beauty and waste and loss.”
Dale Carlson, ALA Notable Book author and founder, Bick Publishing House
“Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind…is truth and beauty delivered to us in wide-eyed wonder by a child’s heart passionately in love with nature.”
Rita Kowats, Spirituality Without Borders
“Evidence of Flossing is a most unusual book, richly thoughtful and sorely, sorely needed.”
Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, author, Letter from Italy, 1944