Between

From the coniferous mountains of Eastern Oregon to the lush tropical mountains of Puerto Rico, Amelia Díaz Ettinger writes in a voice that witnesses both beauty and rupture-climate and political turmoil, cultural dislocation, and intimate reckonings.The collection moves through the layers of nature and human experience, where deer step into silence, wildfire smoke settles over valleys, voices clash at a writer's workshop, and the ghosts of homeland call from across oceans. Díaz Ettinger's lyric eye embraces the liminal-the space "between layers, between blood and skin, between the legacies of memory"-making vivid the connections and fractures that shape who we are.