What Water Holds
May 2023, Empty Bowl Press
Tele Aadsen entered commercial salmon fishing at seven years old on her parents’ homemade trolling boat, and what better guide could there be to a living, and a life, made at sea? Her clear-eyed essays overflow with warmth and precision, honoring work, gender, community and creatures in complicated ways. Shearwaters and boat cats, potlucks and rescues, depression and recovery: Aadsen casts a wide net, and the reader can trust her eye, ear, mind and heart. A fine contribution to the working woman’s canon.
Pronounced “Tell-ah.” She/her.
Tree hugging, tofu eating, feminist fisherman. Seasonally migratory.
Lapsed social worker.
FisherPoet: not a poet but a proet, a prose writer mining life on the water for universal human experiences.
Author of What Water Holds.
Lover of corvids, coffeeshops, suncatchers, kindness.
Listener; holder of space. Believer in the radical work of being human with one another, one story at a time.