The Understory

The Understory

About the Substack

Where we explore the underbelly of being human, our softness and vulnerability, the parts of ourselves we most often relegate to the shadows.

Free Subscription Benefits

• Occasional public posts, early bird access to upcoming Nature & Nurture Hiking and Writing Retreats

Paid Subcription Benefits

• Access to a monthly 90-minute Poetry as Medicine writing circle
• Subscriber only posts and full archive

Paid Subscription Plans

• $50 a year
• $6 a month

About Danielle Coffyn

Writer. Pushcart Prize winning poet. Founder of Nature & Nurture Hiking and Writing Retreats. I write about the achy, tender, often uncomfortable aspects of what it means to be human.