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Since 2012, The Wayfarer Magazine has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspire our readers and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds. By our definition, a “wayfarer” is one whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering.  The Wayfarer’s mission as a publication is to foster a community of contemplative voices and provide readers with resources and perspectives that support them in their own journey. 

About the Publisher At Wayfarer Books we believe poetry is the language of the earth. We believe words, shaped like rivers through wild places, can change the shape of the world. We publish poets and writers and renegades who stand outside of mainstream culture­—poets, essayists, and storytellers whose work might withstand the scrutiny of crows and coyotes, those who are cryptic and floral, the crepuscular, and the queer-at-heart. We are more than just a publisher but a community of writers. Our mission is to produce books that can serve as a compass and map to all wayfarers through wild terrain.


  • Founder and Editor-in-chief // Connor Wolfe

  • Managing Editor // Heidi Barr

  • Senior Editor // Theodore Richards

  • Senior Editor // Jason Kirkey

  • Poetry Editor // Jose Oseguera

  • Poet-at large // Will Falk

  • Editor-at-large // Iris Graville

  • Editor-at-large // Frank Inzan Owen

  • Editor-at-large // David K. Leff

  • Editor-at-large // Thomas Llyod Qualls

  • Editor-at-large // Kristen Williams

  • Editor-at-large // Robert Broder

  • Editor-at-large // Stephen Drew

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We are a Safe Space. Homebound Publications and its Division, Wayfarer Books, are a Trans/Queer-owned business. Across all our imprints, we are deeply invested in reading and publishing diverse voices spanning different religions, ethnicities, and marginalized communities. We strongly welcome submissions from writers within the BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities, writers living with a disability, writers living with refugee status . . . to name a few. Creative individuals from all backgrounds and communities should consider our press a safe space.

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Since 2012, Wayfarer Magazine has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspire our readers and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds.

People

A Publisher of Eco Lit Since 2012.
Heidi Barr is a Minnesota based writer and wellness coach. www.heidibarr.com
Connor Wolfe (they/them), TEDx Speaker and founder of Wayfarer Magazine, author of Drive Through the Night, and numerous other works under the pen name, L.M. Browning.