The Author

Anna Greyhem writes at the grey hem — between reality and fiction, between death and love.

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The work

Anna Greyhem's work refuses to stay in one lane. Poems bleed into prose, chapters fracture, stories spill beyond the page. They don't just ask to be read. They ask to be felt. Sometimes, they even ask you to choose a path.

The name

Anna Greyhem is the name I write under. Why not Anna Graham? Anna Grahem, Anna Greyham, Anna Grayham? People write it down in all of these ways, and I answer to every one of them.

But the spelling is not an accident. Greyhem is the grey hem: the seam at the edge of a thing, where it stops being itself and has not yet become the next. I chose it on purpose. Most of what I write happens there.

The experiences

Six QR codes are printed inside the book. Scanning one opens a piece of the story that could not be printed. Here is what happens when you scan one, and why they exist at all.

In her words

I didn't always know I was going to become a writer.

I became a psychologist because I wanted to understand people. Then I became a consultant because I thought I was supposed to. Somewhere along the way I became exhausted enough to realize that I had spent years becoming everything except myself.

So I quit.

I went back to the stories I had been writing since I was a child and discovered they had been waiting for me all along.

How Life Feels… is the first piece of that world. It is a book about identity, becoming, longing, love, and death. But it is also the place where everything else begins.

There are more stories waiting for you.

Just...
Don't get lost.