About - Audrey Colasanti

Audrey Colasanti is a former award-winning advertising copywriter turned photographer/poet.

Much of Audrey’s poetry reflects on her perspectives of untypical parenthood and searching for meaning in everyday encounters with nature and urban living. She writes about everything from the smell of hospital rooms to wanting to eat a lilac bush.

Audrey’s photography is whimsical with a definite urban bent and design eye. She does not shy away from photographing the macabre, unusual or just plain fanciful.

Colasanti has been shortlisted for the Anne Sexton Prize For Poetry and the Sandy Crimmons National Prize. She was also a semi-finalist for the 2020 Walt Whitman Award/Graywolf Press and long-listed for the Poetry Society 2020 National Poetry Competition. Colasanti’s poems have been featured in The Earth Journal, Wingless Dreamer, Button Eye Review, Inkwell Literary Magazine, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, MPR Minnesota Public Radio, Humana Obscura, amongst others.

Her debut poetry manuscript ‘Thoughts From The Oak’ is published by The Black Springs Press Group/UK and is available at independent book stores worldwide, as well as Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

In Thoughts From The Oak, Audrey reflects on the challenges and unexpected joys in raising two children with serious health challenges. Although her story is unique in its details, Audrey’s poems are universal in their voice to trauma and gut-twisting desire to emerge from the muck. You will read this book in one sitting and close the last page with tears in your eyes; both from concord to Audrey’s stunning journey and optimism for the future of your own.