The Hours Before Dusk: Finding Light in Cities Around the World
Since 2005, Jenna Matecki has chronicled the moments of her life in the form of poems, short stories, and letters. Her work as a sustainability strategist and journalist has taken her to over 25 cities across four continents, where she puts words to the familiar feelings of nostalgia, curiosity, turning strangers into friends, and falling in love: for a moment, with a feeling, with a place, with the right person at the perfect time. The Hours Before Dusk is a hybrid narrative that challenges readers to find feelings of peace and joy in the everyday and to sharpen their curiosity for the world through evocative stories and poetry. This genre-bending collection is a culmination of Matecki’s life lived around the world, written to invoke feelings of sentimentality for the past, while simultaneously urging you to forge new meaningful experiences. The Hours Before Dusk is an antidote to our chaotic, technology-filled existence, a salve for the anxiety levied by our times. It guards and cherishes what you hold most sacred, and provokes a deep dive into the personal, warm, and unspoken world that you call your own.
About the Author:
Jenna Matecki is a sustainability communications strategist and video journalist who recently lived out of a backpack in cities around the world. She is the founder of Matecki Studios, a renowned creative group that has designed social impact strategies for the world’s largest companies, hosted viral video interviews with down-to-earth people who are changing the status quo for the better, and mentored the next generation of leaders in media and storytelling at top universities. Jenna also runs Postcards from Jenna, a global postcards club that brings joy, beauty, poetry, and original artwork to your actual mailbox. jennamatecki.com
Since 2005, Jenna Matecki has chronicled the moments of her life in the form of poems, short stories, and letters. Her work as a sustainability strategist and journalist has taken her to over 25 cities across four continents, where she puts words to the familiar feelings of nostalgia, curiosity, turning strangers into friends, and falling in love: for a moment, with a feeling, with a place, with the right person at the perfect time. The Hours Before Dusk is a hybrid narrative that challenges readers to find feelings of peace and joy in the everyday and to sharpen their curiosity for the world through evocative stories and poetry. This genre-bending collection is a culmination of Matecki’s life lived around the world, written to invoke feelings of sentimentality for the past, while simultaneously urging you to forge new meaningful experiences. The Hours Before Dusk is an antidote to our chaotic, technology-filled existence, a salve for the anxiety levied by our times. It guards and cherishes what you hold most sacred, and provokes a deep dive into the personal, warm, and unspoken world that you call your own.
About the Author:
Jenna Matecki is a sustainability communications strategist and video journalist who recently lived out of a backpack in cities around the world. She is the founder of Matecki Studios, a renowned creative group that has designed social impact strategies for the world’s largest companies, hosted viral video interviews with down-to-earth people who are changing the status quo for the better, and mentored the next generation of leaders in media and storytelling at top universities. Jenna also runs Postcards from Jenna, a global postcards club that brings joy, beauty, poetry, and original artwork to your actual mailbox. jennamatecki.com
Since 2005, Jenna Matecki has chronicled the moments of her life in the form of poems, short stories, and letters. Her work as a sustainability strategist and journalist has taken her to over 25 cities across four continents, where she puts words to the familiar feelings of nostalgia, curiosity, turning strangers into friends, and falling in love: for a moment, with a feeling, with a place, with the right person at the perfect time. The Hours Before Dusk is a hybrid narrative that challenges readers to find feelings of peace and joy in the everyday and to sharpen their curiosity for the world through evocative stories and poetry. This genre-bending collection is a culmination of Matecki’s life lived around the world, written to invoke feelings of sentimentality for the past, while simultaneously urging you to forge new meaningful experiences. The Hours Before Dusk is an antidote to our chaotic, technology-filled existence, a salve for the anxiety levied by our times. It guards and cherishes what you hold most sacred, and provokes a deep dive into the personal, warm, and unspoken world that you call your own.
About the Author:
Jenna Matecki is a sustainability communications strategist and video journalist who recently lived out of a backpack in cities around the world. She is the founder of Matecki Studios, a renowned creative group that has designed social impact strategies for the world’s largest companies, hosted viral video interviews with down-to-earth people who are changing the status quo for the better, and mentored the next generation of leaders in media and storytelling at top universities. Jenna also runs Postcards from Jenna, a global postcards club that brings joy, beauty, poetry, and original artwork to your actual mailbox. jennamatecki.com
