Artist | Writer | Editor
A librarian helping you find joy in your whole creative life.
Meet Faye—your guide to living and working with more creativity + joy
Welcome to Library of Care! A resilient, resourceful, and re-imagined space to nurture creativity—for you, your creative friends, your workplace, and your community.
I work with:
Helping you heal from burnout, reclaim your creative joy, and grow mighty in community.
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Advising & Accountability Sessions for authors, artists, and creatives in need of grounding and support as they emerge or re-emerge into their most badass creative selves.
Editorial Support & Community Book Launch Support Services for authors, artists, and creatives in need of editorial feedback grounded in compassion and positive motivation, and help creating publicity pitches, proposals, press releases, media kits, workshops and events to promote your book and be visible in the community.
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Workshops and events for sparking more creative joy, connection, and well-being are offered both online and in person (Asheville, North Carolina and beyond).
I work with groups to design workshops that speak to your unique needs and goals, including book clubs, community organizations, and collaborations.
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Approachable and engaging creative burnout education + connection practice workshops for talks, conferences, trainings, retreats, and leadership coaching.
I am also available for nonprofit and corporate consulting to help your workplace culture transform its relationship with creativity ushering in an increase in employee well-being and openness to change.
Our lives may have been built for burnout, but
we were born to create.
About
J. Faye D’Avanza
J. Faye D’Avanza is an artist, writer, editor, holistic librarian, yogi, and creative guide who nurtures creative joy—at work, at home, in the community, and everywhere in-between.
She finds her purpose in offering stories and tools to help you reignite, keep, and share your creative spark with others in her indie newsletter KEEPING CREATIVE TIME, and through her work as the founder and creative guide of Library of Care, a resilient, resourceful, a re-imagined space to help people and organizations transform the way they care about creativity, move beyond burnout, and reconnect with what they love.
A former public librarian turned creative educator, she is known for helping people recover and heal from creative burnout by tapping into what brings them joy through her unique blend of group facilitation, individual advising, and content creation for a growing audience of emerging and [re]emerging artists, authors, creatives, and entrepreneurs.
Her approach is rooted in bottom-up connection to creativity (body to mind) and an exploration in the interdependence that can be found when self-care is balanced with community care.
With over 20 years experience working in public libraries, managing communications and events for a woman-owned bookstore, and coaching artists and creative-based businesses through recovery after Hurricane Helene with the nonprofit Mountain BizWorks, Faye is skilled in curating and making accessible community resources, facilitating a holistic approach to the creative process, and engaging others in growing, learning, and connecting through story.
A cultural information professional, Inward & Artward certified creative facilitator, University of Chicago certified book editor, and West Asheville Yoga (RYT-200) yoga teacher-in-training, she lives among the artists, tourists, trees, and mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, and can often be found drinking a matcha latte and writing in the margins of her books.
