Steson, Helen: Faithful

Helen Stetson has traveled extensively and Faithful is her first published book of poems. She uses poetry to describe the places she visited and lived as well as the people she met along the way. "Direct me toward love and compassion, not to be consoled but to console, not to be understood but to understand. For it is in giving that I receive; for it is in selflessness that I find myself, for it is in dying that I will be resurrected."

Helen Stetson was born in Massachusetts but now considers herself an adopted daughter of the South. She has lived and worked in Paris, France, London, England, and Geneva Switzerland. She has lived in Africa and twice crossed the Sahara Desert. She spent eight years in South America, split between Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has traveled extensively in Asia. Her worldview is that there are far more ways we are alike than different. She credits a women's Bible study group in the low country with encouraging her to have faith in herself and her self-expression. This is her first published book of poems.