Helene Kiser
Writer. Speaker. Teacher.
Exploring grief, love, loss, and what happens when language fails us.
Writing on Grief
PORTFOLIO
MY UPCOMING BOOK
A meditation on mortality and an exploration of language’s limits, How to Live While Dying inhabits the liminal space of anticipatory grief — grief before loss — where hope and despair coexist. Using an innovative structure that weaves etymology, literary terms, and linguistic analysis alongside both my husband’s journal entries and my personal narrative chronicling the five months between his stage IV cancer diagnosis and death, the book examines — through a rare dual perspective — how language fails and sustains us during our most profound experiences.
How to Live While Dying
Actual cover coming soon
About Helene
I have a deep interest in liminal spaces: illness, grief, love, mortality, and the moments when the lives we imagined are replaced by the lives we must learn to inhabit. My work explores those thresholds through writing and conversations about language, memory, and meaning.