An Enchanting, Romantic Time Travel Adventure

"The opening pages suggest that Sara’s a standard chick-lit heroine obsessed with dieting, but Ayers (The Dead Boy Sings in Heaven, etc.) is up to something much more original and engaging. Besides the intertwined thriller and sci-fi elements (fairly plausible), Sara learns a great deal about herself and her relationships in trying to change reality, revelations she couldn’t have had without time travel. Her love of books and music adds to her character’s complexity, and unexpected depths are revealed in several well-drawn side characters, even Sara’s cold, critical mother.... An entertaining, well-written tale offering intriguing speculations and a heroine of courage and determination."
—Kirkus Reviews

The Granola Diet promises to turn curvy Sara Rodríguez Bloom García into a svelte, new woman in no time. Once it does, her husband’s rekindled passions will be unstoppable—she hopes.

“Holy molé salsa!” When Sara reaches for the box of granola, she travels back in time to a childhood trip to the grocery store with her beloved grandmother.

Seeing her dead grandmother alive and well again is wonderful, but Sara may be losing her mind, or much, much more.

What starts out as another fad diet leads Sara on a time travel journey of perilous twists and turns—fraught with double-agents, lusty redheads, and a deadly serum.

Sara’s possibly-magical cat, a sexy former crush, tasty meals, and vivid music enliven the darker moments.

Fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series will love Time Flash: Another Me

The Dead Boy Sings In Heaven is a collection of poems about the grief of family—of living with and losing family members. These are poems that tell an unvarnished truth about loss, but the overall perspective is one of love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Read poems from The Dead Boy Sings In Heaven on Escape Into Life

Lana Hechtman Ayers’ sharp, vivid poems in Red Riding Hood's Real Life allow a modern Red Riding Hood, an artistic wolf, and characters like Baba Yaga to spring to life. A meditation on the choices a woman makes in her life, in her relationships, and in her art, this book maps the journey through the trials, wonders, and frustrations of a love affair.
—Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Field Guide to the End of the World.

Not since Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger have I found a poetic persona with this range, depth, insight and humor. Lana Hechtman Ayers’ Red Riding Hood's Real Life reminds me of Leonard Cohen’s songs: while they are often narrative, or conversational, they never lose their essential relationship with melody. These very human poems are built of angelic music, and ask serious questions of the world.
—James Bertolino, author of Ravenous Bliss

Celebrated poet Lana Hechtman Ayers reveals the true-life story of Red Riding Hood, recounting with tenderness—and a new erotic candor—both the anguish and hidden pleasures of straying from the well-worn path. Epic in scope but delivered with striking intimacy, the poems move us from the innocence of girlhood through the pulchritude of adolescence, the mendacities of marriage, and the transgression of infidelity. With whom will Red tango in the dark of the woods: the Huntsman or the Wolf? The answer is transcendent.
—Jeff Gomez, CEO Starlight Runner Entertainment

Four Quarters: An Homage To T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is a dialogue and dance with Eliot's classic poem series. Preserving Eliot's distinctive stanza structures and syntax throughout, Ayers creates an utterly unique poem sequence that simultaneously celebrates the master poet, while taking him to task over his pessimistic stance on humanity.

The Moon's Answer by Lana Ayers is a poem full of desire, sensuous mystery, and the celestial tugs of the beloved, and is illustrated by Anita K. Boyle with full-page, pen & ink drawings.

A limited edition, numbered, hand-typset broadside from Dwell Press.

Winner of the 2012 Summer Solstice contest.

Nominated for the National Book Award Praise for Dance From Within My Bones

“A book of stunning poems…Warm and witty, revelatory and mysterious, it's a book of charm and talent—readable and rereadable page after page.”
—F. D. Reeve

"…an achingly honest book. These poems are vibrant, bold, courageous, open-hearted and direct.”
—Irene Willis

Praise for Love Is A Weed

“I can think only of a very few poets who are able to bring life on a page with a sensibility that is both explosive and insightful, erotic and, yes, laugh-out-loud funny, in the way Lana Hechtman Ayers’s poems are in Love is a Weed.”
—Ilya Kaminsky

“Love in these sensuous poems is both heady and difficult. What I love most: the humor, the passion, the seriousness beneath—and the glow of the poet's incandescent heart.”
—Patricia Fargnoli

Praise for What Big Teeth

What Big Teeth by Lana Hechtman Ayers is an insightful review of woman’s place in the world. While it presents us with a humorous approach to many of the problems faced by modern woman, the book is a serious look at what many women are subject to put up with. The humor may appear to be lighthearted but the meanings of the poems can be devastating. This book claims for modern woman in the persona of Red Riding Hood her rightful place and stature in society. A worthwhile book for the contemporary poetry lover.
—Ottone M. Riccio, Author of The Intimate Art of Writing Poetry and Unlocking the Poem

Winner of D-N Publishing National Manuscript Award

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Praise for Chicken Farmer I Still Love You

“Lana Hechtman Ayers challenges her readers on many levels, starting with the command to 'dare your heart into words.' This poet finds texts everywhere, from graffiti on a granite boulder to a diner’s menu. Ayers’ book, Chicken Farmer I Still Love You, is honest and fearless and offers us delicious servings of an ignored America.”
—Rane Arroyo

“Some poems in this notable new collection by Lana Hechtman Ayers engage their smart-alecky, fast-talking characters with energy and spirit, taking on the Hollywood myths, from Bogart to Bugs Bunny, by which Americans live their lives. In this hard-edged ethos, the poet realizes, we may root for the charming, heartless, take-all winners, until we discover that we may be among the vast legion of losers. Some poems here are forays into pure craft—a 'Sestina' that expansively glosses Elizabeth Bishop's of the same name and employs some of the same end words. Like life itself, the comic and serious unfolding of Chicken Farmer I Still Love You reflects a delightfully spirited work.”
—Carolyne Wright