Twilight River Press takes its name from a moment I will never forget. In 2016, on a summer evening in northern New South Wales, Australia, I watched my beloved husband Karl drown in a river at twilight: trapped in our car after it left the road and plunged into the water. I survived. He did not. That river, that twilight, and that loss gave birth to everything that followed, including these three books and the imprint that carries them into the world.
Twilight River Press publishes books that sit at the intersection of memoir, ethics, and personal and ecological grief: books that are too personal, too hybrid, or too honest for the mainstream. It is a small press with a huge heart. The Twilight River Trilogy is its founding series of three interconnected books.
These three books grew out of the hardest years of my life. When Karl died in the river in 2016, I did not know if I would survive. I did survive, and what I learned about grief, holding fast, and the Earth held me when nothing else could. That became these books.
I offer them to anyone who is grieving, anyone who is frightened by what is happening to our world, or anyone who needs to know that it is possible to navigate grief with a reconciled heart.
Creeksong:
One Woman Sings
The Climate Blues
A poetic exploration of climate grief, featuring a powerful midlife initiatory journey in rural Australia. Weaves song, story, and ethical reflection into an invitation to feel, witness, and respond to the losses of climate breakdown.
Creeksong Audiobook
Hold Fast:
Navigating Personal
and Climate Grief with a Reconciled Heart
A memoir and healing guide that draws on the sudden death of Wendy’s husband in 2016 and her decades of environmental ethics work to offer a model for navigating and reconciling both personal and climate grief.
Opening to Climate Grief:
A Workbook Companion
to Hold Fast
A spacious, structured workbook companion to Hold Fast that guides readers through embodied practices, reflective prompts, and creative invitations for opening to the many aspects of the pain of climate breakdown and helping the reader settle a broken heart.