We’re delighted to announce Reflex Press has acquired These Envoys of Beauty, a memoir by Anna Vaught.
In These Envoys of Beauty, Anna Vaught explores her relationship with the natural world, how it fed and feeds her imagination, and how it gave her hope of something different beyond the world she experienced as a child and young person. She writes about how she oriented herself to the natural world and lived within it while growing up in a rural home; about wishing trees, talking streams, and her early knowledge of plants, animals, and botanical names; about her passionate relationship, even when very young, with foraging and what was edible, how things smelled, licking the rain from leaves, drinking, growing, and cooking.
Over twelve essays, Vaught uses her relationship with the natural world to explore themes of loneliness, depression, and complex and sustained trauma within the family home, issues that shaped her early life and continue to have a far-reaching impact decades later.
These Envoys of Beauty will be published in 2023. Subscribe to our email newsletter for preorder information and subscriber discounts.
About the author
Anna Vaught is a novelist, poet, essayist, short fiction writer, editor, creative writing teacher, secondary English teacher, tutor and mentor, mental health advocate and campaigner, and mum of three. She is the author of four previous books, including 2020’s Saving Lucia (Bluemoose) and Famished (Influx). Her second short story collection, Ravished, will be published by Reflex Press in 2022. Her reviews, features, short stories, creative non-fiction, poems and memoir pieces are widely published in journals, anthologies and in the national press; she is also a monthly columnist for The Bookseller. Anna is represented by Kate Johnson of Mackenzie Wolf, NYC.
