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Poet, Freelance Writer, Caregiver, Auntie, PhD student in Depth Psychology, and Founder of Ancestral Futures: Literary Arts for Liberation.

I'm building Depth Poetry, an immersive, somatic method that uses poems as medicine for embodied healing that re-matriates, centers, and re-indigenizes us to the cosmic order of our ancestors and earth-based ecologies. The circles, salons, and gatherings I hold are the architecture where this framework is taking shape.

Hi there, I’m Audrey

I’m a Southern Black Auntie with Indo-Burmese heritage.

I earned my MFA in creative writing and I'm a certified Usui Reiki Master Teacher. My education also includes:

  • Poetry as a Tool for Wellness with The Institute for Poetic Medicine

  • Narrative Medicine with Columbia University

  • Futures Foresight with The Institute for the Future

  • Various trainings with The Transformative Language Arts Network

In 2020, I founded Ancestral Futures™ to share applied literary arts as a transformative vehicle for individual wellness and community liberation by:

  • making space for historically marginalized Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous literary artists to be seen

  • amplifying poets and writers whose work conveys ancestral wisdom

  • holding community circles where grief, rage, and tenderness are composted through expressive literary arts

  • tending my own craft as a way of keeping underrepresented ancestral heritage and cultural lineages alive through poems, memoir, and speculative fiction

  • transforming socio-cultural world views through poems and stories

THE SALON

Somatic Depth Poetry for Embodied Liberation

All women are welcome.
Aunties are centered.

This is a salon just for us, Sis.
An online women's community where we use Depth Poetry
as an embodied, expressive healing art.

  • Poetry as ancestral bodywork

  • Voice as vibrational medicine

  • Divine feminine power, remembered

  • Sovereign capacity, restored

We read poems together in circle, slowly. We write from womb-space.
We unclench our jaws, relax our shoulders, soften our bellies, and ground down from the root of our pelvic floors to compost grief, rage, and survival-based fear into gratitude, calm, and liberation.

If you've been looking for a room where sensitivity is a superpower,
where elders, ancestors, and non-human kin have a seat at the table, this is that room.

Coming Soon!
JOIN THE WAITLIST

THE RETREAT

Write with me on the Big Island

Writers Across Oceans Retreat
June 2026 · Waimea, Hawai'i

We will gather for a writing + wellness retreat at the base of Waimea’s Mauna Kea volcano.

Learn more and JOIN US!

Hello, World!

FROM INSIDE THE CIRCLE

"The community circle sharing opened a door to feelings I couldn't put into words on my own."

"I felt the kind of bonding you don't get
in most Zoom rooms."

"Audrey’s warm presence and radiant positivity made me feel safe in a room with women I’d never met…
I left with a sense of agency I didn't walk in with."

STAY CLOSE

Find me between workshops

For events, salon dispatches, and occasional field notes from my mushroom foraging and stone collecting adventures, follow me on Instagram:

audthentic_stories

Have a Question?

Send me a note, I’d love to hear from you. xo