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A raw memoir-in-verse that grapples with the nonlinear path of rebuilding identity, trust, and agency after abuse. Sarah Hanson debuts her poetry collection, Conjuring the Hurricane: The Best Way to Save Your Life is Any Way You Can (April 28, 2026, Inked Elephant Publishing).

When Sarah Hanson realized that she had to leave her abusive partner, she didn’t have a plan. She had instinct, fear, a body that had learned to brace against danger, and a small, stubborn voice insisting she deserved more.

This is the story of what it takes to leave a life that is killing you, and who you can become on the other side.

It is also the story of joy returning slowly, in unexpected shapes, and the quiet work of rebuilding a self you can finally live inside. It is a story not just of breaking, but of becoming, a life rebuilt from the storm up.

Conjuring the Hurricane braids together trauma survival, an unexpected love, and the long arc of self-resurrection into a profound narrative, as intimate as a whisper and as powerful as a storm surge. Hanson lays bare the subtle mechanics of control disguised as care, the generational patterns that coil beneath our choices, and the imperfect, deeply human decisions that carve a path toward safety.

For anyone who has ever asked How did she get here? For anyone who has ever whispered How do I get out? For anyone standing at the edge of a life they can no longer endure:  This book is a permission slip.  Not for the perfect exit.  For the exit that saves you.