…I suppose you might be interested in the people (or person?) behind this site. Or maybe you’re not. I shall tell you anyhow and you will enjoy every second of it.

We’re Heather and Jourdan Dunn. Actually, I’m just Heather Dunn, but I feel qualified to speak on my husband’s behalf with respect to ye blog. In all likelihood, I will be the one writing most of the stuff on here – but I will be sharing some of Jourdan’s original poetry, as well as links to both his published works and information on his book formatting service, so the site is very much a joint venture. This housekeeping stuff aside, I know you want to know all about us. I know you do. We’re pretty interesting, if I do say so myself. So, buckle up and enjoy this Cliff’s Notes edition of our history.

Aw, look at how much we enjoy each other. Anyhow, yeah so… we met on Twitter and got married. That’s the short version. The slightly less short version is as follows: we were both indie writers playing about on Twitter, unaware of each other’s existence as it were. Sure, we had a few timeline interactions here and there, but nothing to speak of, really. Then, unbeknownst to Jourdan at the end of 2022 my marriage began to come to an end. By luck or by serendipity, Jourdan reached out to me in early January of 2023 and became an impartial friend when I needed it most. As the days of January passed, we talked daily about life, writing… all kinds of things, really. I had recently started to write poetry, and by the end of January I suggested that we do a daily prompt together – we’d alternate picking a word each day, and we’d both write a piece inspired by the chosen word.

And we wrote. And wrote. At first, about life, our children, our previous marriages, and other topics… but as January turned into February, and then inched toward March, it became apparent to us – and probably to everyone around us – that we’d accidentally fallen in love. The poetry had become call and response – love letters that I think we both thought were veiled. They weren’t.

In March we decided to, despite the seemingly insurmountable odds (We lived on opposite coasts! We both had small children! We had both proclaimed that never again would we be fooled by the very notion that love was real!) give a relationship a try. But falling in love with Jourdan was the easiest and most organic thing that I’ve ever experienced in my life.

In May ’23 we met for the first time, and we spent a week together nearly every month until May ’24, when he made the move from California to New York, and we were married in a small ceremony at Town Hall on May 31, 2024.

Now we both live and work and write and raise our boys (mine is 8, his is 6 today, as I write this) from our home on Long Island. I hate to be what my son would call “cringe” but honestly – I didn’t actually think people felt this way about another person until we met. That doesn’t mean I don’t give him the evil eye when he leaves the dresser drawer open or doesn’t close the shower curtain all the way after a shower – but, yeah, it’s pretty damn good.