Nadia Colburn is the author of the poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf, and her poetry and prose have appeared in more than eighty publications, including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Spirituality & Health, Lion's Roar, and The Yale Review. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, is a yoga teacher and serious student of Thich Nhat Hanh and is the founder of Align Your Story Writing School, which brings traditional literary and creative writing studies together with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. The school has a community of over 30,000 mindful writers. Nadia lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. Find her at nadiacolburn.com, where she offers meditations and free resources for writers.

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About I Say the Sky:

"From the opening poem and on through this glorious book, Nadia Colburn strikes the difficult balance between celebrating the splendor of the world we inhabit and acknowledging the grief and devastation that none of us can escape. As much a book of love songs as a book of elegies, I Say the Sky is a heart opening and mind sharpening collection."
—Camille T. Dungy

"The poems in I Say the Sky are both a hymn to what's lost and a hymnal for how to carry on. 'We must do something,' Nadia Colburn writes, and that writing is part of the something—as is the cataloguing both of diminishment and plenty. 'Teach me to pray anywhere,' she says, guiding us to look for transcendence not only in 'the cardinals singing at first dawn,/but also in the concrete parking lot/ of the Everett Mall.'"
—Andrea Cohen