The Forest She Traveled

About the Book

The Forest She Traveled is a collection of poems, a journey through the body’s grammar as it seeks to bring forward what has passed. The book is a vast field note of conversations with the fallen, the ancestral child, the ransacked, the witness. It is an account of a young woman and the precariousness she finds at the intersection of identity and migration. It is an archivist’s project tinged with antediluvian fantasy and hard living. In the author’s blue jeep, turned boat, turned spaceship, she arrives at a pit stop to leave a memento.

About the Author

Shayna S. Israel is a poet, educator and scholar. She is an alumna of Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania and the University at Buffalo. Born to a Belizean mother and southern Black father on the planet of Brooklyn, she lives between worlds.