About the Author

Abigail Morgan Prout has worked as a Co-Active Leadership Coach for the last 23 years, helping thousands of clients to hone their leadership presence and impact. For 8 years Abigail has served as faculty for the Co-Active Training Institute, leading their coaching and leadership courses. She is passionate about poetry and creative imagination as a way to cultivating leadership. Abigail returned to the small island of Lopez with her husband Clive to Washington State to raise their two children, Iona and Jax. She can be found rambling, singing, and listening in the coastal forest every morning with her silky black lab, Bella. Walk Deep, her first book, won the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize.

Reviews

"Walk Deep's devoted, interconnected journey towards authenticity is alive with deep feeling. Like the mycorrhizal roots of an old-growth forest, these poems weave self, nature, and family within a living word-web." -Annie Finch, Poet, Writing Teacher, Spells: New and Selected Poems
"Abigail lovingly invites us to open ourselves to consider what it means to belong to this big wild hurting world. It is a great pleasure to walk with her through reading these poems."-Jennifer Louden, National bestselling author, The Woman's Comfort Book
"This is just such a glorious, heart-warming, heart-bursting, heart-rending collection... More than ever, this is what we need as our world unravels and we strive to find the courage to face the moment and the inspiration to step forward into a new way of being and belonging." -Manda Scott, Bestselling author, Columnist, Teacher
"This lovely collection invites us all into a more resonant and empowering relationship with the familiar and gently nudges us to savor the beauty that washes through our day-to-day. Don't miss it!"-Karen and Henry Kimsey-House, Co-Founders, The Co-Active Training Institute
"'Listen here, ' Abigail Morgan Prout invites, instructs, implores in this wondrous collection of poetry. Her deep walking in the woods yields gifts of beauty and wisdom, reminding us that all we have here 'is this thin slice of time.' How lucky we are she uses some of hers to pen poems. As I read, I kept thinking to myself, 'this is my favorite, ' and then a short while later, 'this is my favorite, ' and on and on! -Iris Graville, author of Writer in a Life Vest and Hiking Naked
"Rhythm and rhyme give shape to Prout's tender poems, as she seeks to 'walk deep' in the forest of her imagination, exploring fern, fir, and ocean spray on Lopez Hill, while simultaneously turning her attention to her dreams, experiences of marriage, family and home, and the fragility of our earth."-Kip Robinson Greenthal, award-winning author of Shoal Water