Narrative Nonfiction

Writing Practice

Yolanda’s writing traverses the confluence of culture, ecology, and spirituality. Her essays draw on lived experience, observation, and philosophical inquiry to illuminate the unity of all things and the hypocrisy at the heart of modernity. She uses narrative nonfiction to peel back the layers of cultural conditioning that have trapped the mind of the consumer in a labyrinth of cognitive dissonance and false equivalents. Her intention is to use language as a mirror and storytelling as an act of attention, so as to open a portal between the reader and the source of all things.

Each piece is a meditation on what it means to sense, to feel, to remember and to know. The reader is invited to deepen their connection to the essential nature of existence as a means of finding their place in an ever changing world.

Her excavations of the personal and political reveal an acerbic wit, poetic expression, and a perspicacity that extends beyond the five senses. She uses writing as a practice through which to question everything and explore what’s possible if we accept nothing at face value.

With a penchant for second person singular, Yolanda’s writing plays with form and structure to challenge habitual ways of engaging with text.

In a post truth world, her writing examines the current ‘renonsense’ we’re all being subjected to, and reflects the belief that there is definitely another way…