Stories, practices, and conversations for people building a whole creative life.

I’m Faye—a writer, artist, and creator of Library of Care.

Through stories, practices, experiences, and Story Care Coaching, I create spaces where people can build a whole creative life—one rooted in curiosity, care, and sustainable creative practice.

Creativity isn’t something we seek.

It’s a relationship worthy of our care.

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About
J. Faye D’Avanza

J. Faye D’Avanza is a writer, artist, librarian, and creator of Library of Care, an evolving ecosystem of stories, conversations, and practices for your whole creative life. Through Story Care Coaching, community gatherings, workshops, and the Pop-Up Creative Questions Desk, she creates spaces where people can explore their relationship with creativity and discover what it might be asking of them.

Faye is a passionate believer that creativity isn't something we seek—it's a relationship worthy of our care. She writes in conversation with what it means to live a whole creative life in Keeping Creative Time on Substack

An Inward & Artward certified creative facilitator, certified book editor, and yoga teacher (RYT-200), Faye lives among the artists, tourists, trees, and mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, where she can often be found drinking a matcha latte, writing in the margins of her books, and engaging in meaningful conversations with people who care deeply.

A free introductory call with Faye to explore your writing and creative goals.

Faye loves connecting with and supporting:

  • writers, storytellers, artists, musicians, and makers

  • wellness and movement practitioners

  • creative entrepreneurs and facilitators

  • neurodivergent creative minds

  • mission-driven organizations and institutions in the arts, creative business, and cultural humanities

  • Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

    Julia Cameron

  • You may run out of energy, but not creativity.

    Rick Rubin

  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

    Jorge Luis Borges

  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

    Cicero

  • Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

    George Bernard Shaw

  • You must meet the outer world with your inner world or existence will crush you.

    Mark Nepo

  • The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

    Upstream by Mary Oliver

  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

    Andy Warhol

  • Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed them the real food without which their dreams will be no different than ours?

    Audre Lorde

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