Book Launch!
Writing by Heart
On Aspire Magazine’s TOP 10 Book List & What’s Hot in Yoga Magazine
New World Library, Feb 2024
“Meredith Heller invites us on a wild hearted adventure to express our full-bodied truths. This important and beautifully written book turns writing into a feast for the senses and the wild imagination.”
~ Rebecca Wildbear, author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration, & Advocacy for the Earth
“What a glowing gift! Writing By Heart is a luminous lamp lighting your writing way inward and forward. This is a captivating and wonder-filled book, overflowing with wild wisdom for your words to become known to you, and find holy homes in other eyes, ears, hearts and souls.”
~ SARK, artist, author, inspirationalist, planetSARK.com
“Pick up your pen and lock your doors — you’ll be excited to write! Heller’s fiercely nurturing guidance provides relentless dynamic support and hums through these pages— caressing, alchemizing, liberating our psyches.”
~ April C. Heaslip, PhD, mythologist & educator
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“Writing by Heart is a living organism that communicates health and is a catalyst for creativity. This book is human. This book is spiritual. This book is community. Writing by Heart draws these dimensions together into a whole.”
~ From the foreword by John Fox, Founder, the Institute for Poetic Medicine and author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity with Poem-Making
Write a Poem, Save Your Life
“Writing advice both practical and inspirational.”
Kirkus Reviews
“This is more than a book… It is a doorway, a trail guide, a muse, a container of magic treasures, a friend. One you will want to keep close to you. From her own humble beginnings, Heller gorgeously invites us into the creative process of becoming human, by learning to attend to and celebrate the full range of our life experiences through the extraordinary alchemy of poetic writing."
– SARK artist & author, PlanetSARK
“With wisdom and heart gleaned from her own rocky adolescence, Heller, a masterful guide into the depths of self, provides core questions and invitations that open the way for our souls to speak. “
– From the foreword by Susan G. Wooldridge, author of poemcrazy: freeing your life with words
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Poetry Collections
True to her poetry, Heller asks the important questions that are left humming in our hearts,
“What kind of watermark will you leave?”
–Review from Wendi R. Kaplan, Poet Laureate emeritus, Alexandria Virginia
Finishing Line Press, 2021
“What Dali did with paint Heller does with words. Follow her if you want your senses awakened, your soul touched. Better yet, chase her deep into the wood…NOW!”
~ Steven Adler, Aerospace Engineer & Founder of Sacred Chocolate
Finishing Line Press, 2019
Finishing Line Press, 2021
“Meredith Heller takes the ordinary world of stones and sky and stars and birds and relationships and paints them in ways that are revelatory.”
~ Wendi R. Kaplan, Poet Laureate emeritus, Alexandria Virginia
River Spells will transport you into an experience of oneness with the natural world, and like any good spell, transform you back into your true nature.
~ Chula Gemignani, Art activist
“Meredith’s poetry flows from her heart into your blood. Here is a poet who has felt pain but who has survived because of her sheer love of life and nature. In this difficult dark time, her poetry is an elixir.”
~ Anne Pallie
Meredith’s Music
“A singer/songwriter with a depth and weight that is often attempted but rarely achieved. Meredith delivers honest lyrics wrapped in haunting melodies that weave and curve around subliminal hooks and beautiful lucid turnarounds. This is why Meredith Heller is The PME Diamond in The Rough for this week.”
~ PME Music
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“What a voice! Meredith’s melodies and lyrics come straight from her innermost being. She has a way of singing rich and sultry tones that crest and break into levitation with total ease. Her music heals the soul.”
~ Sheila Litwin, Dance Therapist
“You will be captivated by this siren-poet's lyrical, mystical realm of wonder and beauty. Dive into these songs and discover a heart treasure of stirring depth and vibrant imagination.”
~ Dr Willow Pearson, Psychotherapist & Music Therapist