Lexa Hillyer
…is a creativity and life coach, writer, producer, editorial consultant, and an entrepreneur who created a seven-figure boutique book and entertainment business over twelve years ago, after nearly a decade working in traditional publishing, at HarperCollins and Penguin Books. She received an MFA in poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, and is a Master Jungian Life Coach certified through ICF-accredited CreativeMind. She has published four novels with HarperCollins, and one prize-winning poetry collection. She utilizes her experience as an entrepreneur as well as her expertise in narrative to inform her coaching style, with a focus on clients in creative fields and small business owners. Through Jungian psychology, she works with the unconscious mind to unleash clients’ true potential. As a consultant, she helps individual artists and companies create original IP for books, film and television. She is also a mother, human, sister, daughter, wife, friend, three-time wedding officiant, wine lover and failed ukuleleist.
The Monthly Letters
You’re not alone. We all lose motivation, lack focus sometimes, or simply get stuck in a rut.That’s why it’s so damn nice receiving the occasional reminder in your inbox to take a breath, that it’s ok, and that usually, a little creativity can get you out of it. If you want a bit of this nice feeling too, please do join us! Click below to sign up for the MONTHLY LETTERS which contain my poetic musings, random pep-talks, inspiration, and the soothing sensation that you are not the only one out there feeling how you’re feeling.
My Books
Almost always set in snow-filled, wintery landscapes, whether intimately familiar or vast as a fantasy kingdom, my published novels and poetry explore the bonds between women, the stories that find us, and our relationship both to the natural world and to our own inner magic.
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For inquiries regarding author appearances or rights availability, please reach out to my agent Stephen Barbara at Inkwell Management: Stephen@Inkwellmanagement.com
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“Charged with apt and astonishing metaphors, reckless intelligence, unnerving passion, and the ‘waa waa / and the oooo waa’ of their own original music, these poems race towards you, “unstoppable,” and then, wonderfully, linger, persist like ‘held-fire,’ so you can walk about in them and marvel how Lexa Hillyer brings everything together in this remarkable debut collection. Truly, Acquainted with the Cold is a book of wonders.”
— Theodore Deppe, author of Orpheus on the Red Line
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“A beautifully written testament to the power of friendship and the possibility of second chances, told with humor, heart, and a little bit of magic.“
— Jennifer E. Smith, bestselling author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
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“Absorbing. Poetic. In Spindle Fire, Lexa Hillyer draws the walls between dreams and reality with shimmering grace...and phrases of such beauty I had to read many of them twice.”
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, author of Tiger Lily
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“A lush landscape and an innovative intertwinement of classic Perrault with the unconventional, with considerations of power and hierarchy present as the sisters discover the dark workings of love and family that have affected their lives and land.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“Frozen Beauty is a lyrical, raw, stay-up-all-night to finish kind of book. This story about three sisters, a boy next door, and too many secrets, is not only beautifully told but also an important narrative about the dangers that sometimes lurk closer than we think. My heart still hasn’t recovered.”
— Shea Ernshaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Deep
