Here we go!
My first poetry collection, the chapbook Sandstone and Kin, is now available for pre-order: finishinglinepress.com/product/sandstone-and-kin-by-camille-lefevre/
The collection was selected for publication from FLP's New Women's Voices Chapbook Content.
Pre-orders are open until July 31, and so important to authors because they determine the press run, and whether the book ends up on shelves in bookstores.
In this debut poetry collection, Camille LeFevre ventures beyond the postcard-pretty optics of Northern Arizona’s spectacular red-rock landscape into an eco-poetics of home. Layered sandstone, coyote scat, antler shed, and cactus bone spirit these poems. The longing for kinship in her “terra-stained gaze” dissolves the boundaries between nature and human: All life is sentient, her body mirrors biomes. The high desert and its more-than-human inhabitants transform her past trauma into “one true nature.” Together, poet and readers find solace within “a canyoned embrace.”
My poetry friends and mentors have been so gracious and generous in providing me with lovely blurbs:
A collection bursting at the seams with wild kin – coral and antlered creatures, coyotes and canyons, roadrunners and ravens, sycamores and scorpions, and the “ancestors/ossified in sandstone” – Sandstone and Kin is a love letter to the creatures and places that root the speaker to an oikos (or ecos). “I am not a tourist,” the poet-speaker, Camille LeFevre, says of her relation to the Earth. With precision and a quality of attention both tender and funny, Sandstone and Kin is a vital guide for resituating ourselves in reciprocal relation to the more-than-human world.
–Sarah Giragosian, author of Queer Fish, The Death Spiral, and Mother Octopus
In her debut collection, Sandstone and Kin, Camille LeFevre turns to the red‑rock landscape of Northern Arizona to probe her shifting sense of self and belonging. With a keen eye for detail, she captures “dusk’s bruised/light across hot desert” and “apricot trees blazing/with small suns,” rendering the region’s beauty with both reverence and urgency. Through these vivid encounters with place, LeFevre traces the lineages and histories embedded in the land – reflections that illuminate the speaker’s own desires, yearnings, and inherited stories. The result is a stunning, breathtaking collection.
–Shannon K. Winston, author of The Worry Dolls and The Girl Who Talked to Paintings
In these rich nature poems, Camille LeFevre sings to us in the language of coyotes, sandstone, hoodoos, and the red dirt that “pulls at my blood,” in stanzas that taste of desert dust and evoke slow centuries of creation. There is music here, and bright poetic jewels excavated by a writer intent on revealing the naked bones and beauty of her wild home.
–Joanna Streetly, author of All of Us Hidden
Here are poems of yearning and healing, of blurring body and land, of devotion and love to the red rock desert and her creatures. Camille LeFevre’s poetry collection Sandstone and Kin is a homecoming. With imagery that can only come from intimacy with the land, these poems sing with images that “plunge dream-/deep into soft pelts as whoop/and woof shingle the mountains.” Coyote is a beloved companion through these poems, crossing the yard, “mouth sly” at the boundary. And as the speaker grows into her desert home, her body becomes “stone/sycamore/other-than/with coyote beside me.” I want to follow this poet into this beloved desert landscape and join her as “to slick-rock curves/I mold my body/in respite.”
–Anne Haven McDonnell, author of Living With Wolves, Breath on a Coal, and Singing Under Snow
Thanks also to the Arizona Commission on the Arts Opportunity Grant, which helped fund my residency at Dorland Mountain Arts and the weekend-long Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference with poet Joan Houlihan and poet and publisher (Alice James Books) Carey Salerno.
In other news:
My essay "Body Topography," published in The Dodge, was selected for the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology.
Look for a new poem in Wild Roof Journal this fall. AND... an ekphrastic poem was selected for an anthology (still a secret) that will be published in late 2026.
My first poetry collection, the chapbook Sandstone and Kin, is now available for pre-order: finishinglinepress.com/product/sandstone-and-kin-by-camille-lefevre/
The collection was selected for publication from FLP's New Women's Voices Chapbook Content.
Pre-orders are open until July 31, and so important to authors because they determine the press run, and whether the book ends up on shelves in bookstores.
In this debut poetry collection, Camille LeFevre ventures beyond the postcard-pretty optics of Northern Arizona’s spectacular red-rock landscape into an eco-poetics of home. Layered sandstone, coyote scat, antler shed, and cactus bone spirit these poems. The longing for kinship in her “terra-stained gaze” dissolves the boundaries between nature and human: All life is sentient, her body mirrors biomes. The high desert and its more-than-human inhabitants transform her past trauma into “one true nature.” Together, poet and readers find solace within “a canyoned embrace.”
My poetry friends and mentors have been so gracious and generous in providing me with lovely blurbs:
A collection bursting at the seams with wild kin – coral and antlered creatures, coyotes and canyons, roadrunners and ravens, sycamores and scorpions, and the “ancestors/ossified in sandstone” – Sandstone and Kin is a love letter to the creatures and places that root the speaker to an oikos (or ecos). “I am not a tourist,” the poet-speaker, Camille LeFevre, says of her relation to the Earth. With precision and a quality of attention both tender and funny, Sandstone and Kin is a vital guide for resituating ourselves in reciprocal relation to the more-than-human world.
–Sarah Giragosian, author of Queer Fish, The Death Spiral, and Mother Octopus
In her debut collection, Sandstone and Kin, Camille LeFevre turns to the red‑rock landscape of Northern Arizona to probe her shifting sense of self and belonging. With a keen eye for detail, she captures “dusk’s bruised/light across hot desert” and “apricot trees blazing/with small suns,” rendering the region’s beauty with both reverence and urgency. Through these vivid encounters with place, LeFevre traces the lineages and histories embedded in the land – reflections that illuminate the speaker’s own desires, yearnings, and inherited stories. The result is a stunning, breathtaking collection.
–Shannon K. Winston, author of The Worry Dolls and The Girl Who Talked to Paintings
In these rich nature poems, Camille LeFevre sings to us in the language of coyotes, sandstone, hoodoos, and the red dirt that “pulls at my blood,” in stanzas that taste of desert dust and evoke slow centuries of creation. There is music here, and bright poetic jewels excavated by a writer intent on revealing the naked bones and beauty of her wild home.
–Joanna Streetly, author of All of Us Hidden
Here are poems of yearning and healing, of blurring body and land, of devotion and love to the red rock desert and her creatures. Camille LeFevre’s poetry collection Sandstone and Kin is a homecoming. With imagery that can only come from intimacy with the land, these poems sing with images that “plunge dream-/deep into soft pelts as whoop/and woof shingle the mountains.” Coyote is a beloved companion through these poems, crossing the yard, “mouth sly” at the boundary. And as the speaker grows into her desert home, her body becomes “stone/sycamore/other-than/with coyote beside me.” I want to follow this poet into this beloved desert landscape and join her as “to slick-rock curves/I mold my body/in respite.”
–Anne Haven McDonnell, author of Living With Wolves, Breath on a Coal, and Singing Under Snow
Thanks also to the Arizona Commission on the Arts Opportunity Grant, which helped fund my residency at Dorland Mountain Arts and the weekend-long Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference with poet Joan Houlihan and poet and publisher (Alice James Books) Carey Salerno.
In other news:
My essay "Body Topography," published in The Dodge, was selected for the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology.
Look for a new poem in Wild Roof Journal this fall. AND... an ekphrastic poem was selected for an anthology (still a secret) that will be published in late 2026.