SARAH
HANSON

“I can’t remember the last time I cared so much, and felt so invested in, a new author.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic

For the woman quietly wondering if she’s allowed to leave.

Conjuring the Hurricane is a memoir-meets-essay collection about rebuilding from the storm up.
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• 2026 IPPY OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR •

• 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD: CONTEMPORARY POETRY •

You are Allowed to Leave

Conjuring the
Hurricane

A survival memoir-in-verse about leaving a life that’s killing you and rebuilding a self you can finally live inside.

​Told in fragments that mirror how trauma lives in the body, this book traces the nonlinear work of reclaiming identity, trust, and agency.

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A listening companion to the book. Conjuring the Hurricane: 120 reflective songs, arranged across a journey from survival and grieving, rebuilding and beginning again.

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Conjuring the Hurricane

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic
I can’t remember the last time I cared so much, and felt so invested in, a new author.

Jennifer Pastiloff

Best-selling author of On Being Human and Proof of Life
Each of Hanson’s words pierce a part of you that you didn’t know needed prodding and leaves you changed; softer. This book will make you feel held. And seen.

Ron Charles

Award-winning book critic, formerly of The Washington Post.

What’s so exhilarating about reading this brave, tender collection straight through is watching [Hanson] attain that healing, that sanctuary, that joy that eluded her for so long.

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A stirring collection of poems about love’s destructive powers… Hanson deftly explores the overlapping and often contradictory emotions that can characterize a romantic endeavor.

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A powerful poetry collection… [that] names emotional maelstroms and practices tenderness… Iconoclastic and subversive.

Stephanie Chinn

Best-selling author of Here Sister, Let Me Help You Up
This book is phenomenal, it is going to help and nourish so many people. Such deep resonance on these pages that will leave you feeling seen and held by her words. What a beautiful offering.

Elizabeth Hara

Emmy-award winning writer for Marvel’s Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur and Sesame Street
Reading this will be a walk through hell, then a steep but steady climb into the sunlight. You’re going to feel terrified, stripped bare,

Maria Geschecht

Author of A Little Feral
Sarah Hanson summons chaos and survival at once, moving by spell and instinct. With precision, fracture, and dark humor, she tells stories that are coming undone even as she writes them. A brilliant debut.

Heidi Barr

Author of Collisions of Earth and Sky
This gem of a book is full of realness and truth, woven together in a way that won’t blind you with too much light. Read it, and be astonished at the beauty that is still possible despite everything.

Angela Janda

Author of Small Rooms with Gods
For those who have wondered ‘What if?’– let Sarah Hanson take you to the Church of How to Change Everything. Hanson’s voice is generous and clear. I feel tended-to by this honest and necessary work. An astonishing joy.

Melanie Sue Hicks

Author of Incongruent
Through the chaos of loss and the storm of emotions, this journey transforms into something far more beautiful: a reclamation of self. It’s a story of resilience, finding clarity amidst the debris, and ultimately emerging stronger.

About Sarah

Author, poet, and truth-teller. Sarah Hanson writes hard truths beautifully, offering stories of survival, resilience, and hope. Her memoir-in-verse, Conjuring the Hurricane, is the recipient of the 2026 IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year and winner of the 2026 International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry.
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