memoir.
Despite a loving,middle class family, a young rider grapples with un-diagnosed mental illness behind the guise of difficult teen years. Attempting to flee the chaos by whatever means possible, she is met with the realization that you can’t outrun what is within you. Through the devastating injury of her beloved horse, Tiny she begins to understand the nature of the illness that aims to take her life.
I will be seeking a literary agent to represent my memoir beginining March 10th!
Personal Essays
My First Personal Essay "Here With You" was published in January 2023 by Hippocampus Magazine. It weaves togheter my struggle with postpartum anxiety and depression as well as my horses diagnosis of a life altering nerological condition. You can read it here.
bio.
Paige Lammers lives in a quaint mountain valley in Mission, British Columbia, Canada with her husband, three children and their menagerie of misfit animals.
Growing up with an undiagnosed mental illness and deeply affected by the transformative bond she shared with her horse, Tiny, she is passionate about using her love of horses to impact the lives of youth struggling with mental illness.
In 2023 she was awarded a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts allowing her to complete her manuscript while at home mothering her three young children who love to chew on her red pens and turn a startling number of pages into origami.
