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MARCH 12, 2026 · 6:30 PM · $0.00WEST CENTRAL ABBEY · 1832 West Dean Avenue 99201
You and yours are invited to the book launch!
· Raised by Ferns ·
the debut memoir from poet Maya Jewell Zeller
the event will feature
· Mt. Spokane String Quartet ·
{ Zoey Zeller, Jane Grossman, Ethan Nguyen, Colton Kuhnkey }
· Dear Chorus ·
{ Jeremy Pataky, Sharma Shields, Leyna Krow, Katie Scott, Kate
Lebo, Kat Smith, Laura Read, Liz Rognes, Kate Reed, Katie Wisenor, Sam Ligon, Ellie Kozlowski }
· Kate Lebo ·
{ pies }
· Washington Wines ·
· Auntie's Bookstore ·
Maya'll be pleased to sign books sold on site by Auntie's or brought by you from home.
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Born in a Pacific Northwest gas station to itinerant, countercultural parents, Maya Jewell Zeller came of age in a landscape where poverty, wildness, and self-reliance intertwined. Raised by Ferns traces the path of a feral girl craving both freedom and safety to a middle-class adult life shaped by academia, motherhood, and uneasy privilege.
Refusing tired narratives of bootstrap triumph, Zeller instead renders rural America with intimate complexity. She writes with sharp lyricism and attention about what it means to live between worlds—material scarcity and cultural wealth, inherited distrust and institutional legitimacy. From leaking rentals to library stacks, from ferns and fire codes to scholarship and marital strife, Zeller’s life resists easy packaging yet finds form in layered essays that explore the complicated pursuit of belonging.
Raised by Ferns offers a vital, compelling new take on the forces that shape identity and the choices that define home. It is a story of survival, but more importantly, of questioning for what—and who—it is worth surviving.
pub date: March 3, 2026 (Porphyry Press)
5.5" x 8.5" · 264 pages
$23.95 US
ISBN soft: 978-1-7367558-7-7
https://porphyry.press/raised-by-ferns
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1832 W Dean Ave, Spokane, WA 99201-1829, United States
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