Proud Roads + Understory Book Bundle

These works stand side by side as records of grief, survival, and care in the wake of the storm.

Proud Roads chronicles the long wake of Helene through prose-poems, lyric fragments, and echoes of Indigenous storytelling. Riedesel’s voice carries both the storm’s wreckage and the stubborn pulse of community.

Understory gathers artists and writers across Southern Appalachia and beyond in a full-color anthology that bears witness to Helene’s devastation and its afterlife through art.

Together, these books form a chorus: one intimate and personal, the other collective and expansive. Both insist on remembering, and both reach toward survival through care.

This bundle is available for a limited time. Order now to hold both of these landmark works in your hands — companion volumes that carry the story of Hurricane Helene forward.

Kelly Riedesel is a Cree-Métis dual citizen of the U.S. and the Métis Nation of Ontario. With a background in Soil and Water Science and Microbiology, she spent her career protecting the land and water, guided by a deep awareness of our impact on the natural world. When disability shifted her responsibility away from environmental work, Kelly turned to poetry as a way to continue to uphold the Cree law of Wâhkôhtowin— the kinship and sacred collective responsibility we have that binds us to both the richness and the suffering of all creation now and in the future. Her work explores what it means to remain in relationship with each other and the land, especially through prolonged uncertainty and change.