Of the Stars

A.M. Alcedo is a licensed therapist with specialty training in trauma recovery. She adores the mental health field, her clients, and is privileged to be a part of their story and vulnerability. Much like Norah Kestrel, A.M. Alcedo has also found healing, hope, and power through her grief, loss, and pain. As a child, she desperately needed a Dexteras Doe in her life, and thus wrote OF THE STARS, to pay homage to her littlest self. This debut novel is written in solidarity for those who have lived in the empty, lonely cove of grief and isolation. For those who have waited in the dark, warming their hands by their tiny, yet fierce fires. This book is to remind them that there are endless coves along the shore occupied by others just like them. They are not alone and they are not forgotten. This book is a love letter to honor them and their stories. Ava Mae Alcedo is a wife to the kindest man in all the galaxy, and a mother to Pancake the calico. She is a lover of Pu-erh tea, anything matcha flavored, birdwatching with binoculars, doodling unicorns, hiking to waterfalls, and getting new tattoos. Above all else, she feels her Purpose is to hold space for the sacred stories of others. Follow her journey via Instagram @writemindedlefthanded