Black woman writer in 35mm photography

Elizabeth Price is a poet, journalist, author, communication strategist and

award-winning social impact leader.

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  • If you don’t deal with the shadow

  • It will eat you alive.

    It will remind you of every time you ever spittle-told yourself wrong.

    It will grind its spiked heel into the most sore and sinewy pit of muscle in your thigh,

    Or in the crevice between your chest and arm,

    It will remind you of stomach-churning at twilight

    Of times you thought you knew everything without being able to actually feel

    Anything

    - excerpt from “Shadow Work”, A Yearner’s Soliloquy

A Yearner’s Soliloquy

coming January 2026

A Yearner’s Soliloquy is the debut poetry collection from Elizabeth Price.

Filled with tales of heartbreak, hope, healing and deeply evocative self-inquiry, this collection speaks to readers seeking the light in their darkest days.

Published by World Stage Press.