Donovan Lord · Author & storyteller

Words for the
inner life.

Poetry, memoir and sensory ritual—three books tracing a passage from heartache, through embodiment, toward the self that was there all along.

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Come Back to Your SensesDonovan Lord

Three worksOne unfolding story

The library · 01—03

Three books.
Three returns.

Each book begins at a different threshold: pain named without apology, the body rediscovered as a source of wisdom, and identity reclaimed on one’s own terms.

01 · Published

Heartaches

A poetry & art memoir

An autobiographical collection of poetry, artwork and photography confronting love, loss, racism, homophobia, mental health and survival.

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02 · Available

Come Back to Your Senses

A sensory wellness guide

A design-forward guide to emotional, spiritual and mental wellbeing through sight, sound, scent, taste, touch and intuition.

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03 · Forthcoming

The Original Me

A forthcoming memoir

A long-form reflection on identity, memory and becoming—an inquiry into what remains when expectation gives way to truth.

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About the author

Writing is another way
I design experience.

Donovan Lord is an author, artist, musician and Master of Architecture whose work moves between the built world and the inner one.

His writing is personal, visual and unguarded. Whether he is shaping a poetry memoir from decades of lived experience or exploring the rituals that return us to our bodies, he writes to make difficult truths inhabitable—and transformation possible.

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Critical response · Heartaches