Jeannie Piekos is a poet, writer, cancer survivor. Author of Buoyancy: a memoir and subject of the documentary, Buoyancy: Living Between Dualities
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Jeannie Piekos, writer, poet and spokeswoman, found a way to navigate and share her cancer journey through essays and poetry. In Buoyancy, a memoir, she travels from the heart-breaking, life-threatening diagnosis through the treatment protocol with its side-effects and fallout, and onward into a transformed, unrecognizable self that yearns to find self-acceptance and possibly recovery. Buoyancy provides a lens into a private space that allows the reader to be witness to the loneliness, poignancy and universality of disease.
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“Finding peace with my situation meant learning to love what felt broken in my life—my heart, my body and the cells that went awry…”

Signed copies of the book are available for $15. Please use contact page to message me for purchasing details.

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Buoyancy is a 55-minute poetic documentary film about one woman's cancer journey. Witness how Jeannie coped with her devastating diagnosis, managed living in dualities, and how she found ways to stay buoyant. For more information or to book screenings, please use contact page on this website. 

Reviews of Buoyancy: Living Between Dualities

Buoyancy Movie Trailer from Will Hommeyer on Vimeo.

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Praise for Buoyancy

Jeannie begets love and that love grows from her and beyond her and then grows some more. Her family, friends, community, art, poems, gardens, beloved dogs, fun-loving smart-ass sense of humor, candor, vulnerability and indomitableness are revealed in these pages. --Amy Ballestad, Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre
       --Amy Ballestad, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater
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So much love is in this memoir! Only a fine poet whose touch is light as a feather can levitate her readers with words the way Jeannie Piekos does with her cancer memoir, Buoyancy. This book and its author are beautiful and brave and strong and will make readers feel beautiful and brave and strong.

--Mike Hazard, writer

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