A poignant, tender, and beautifully written coming-of-age story.
Staufenberg spins a spare, luminous modern folktale about grief and the quiet courage of letting go. Twelve-year-old Sophie, newly orphaned, lives in a world where the dead linger in a frozen northern… The Girl Who Came Back to Life: A Fairytale by Craig Staufenberg
A poignant, tender, and beautifully written coming-of-age story.
Staufenberg spins a spare, luminous modern folktale about grief and the quiet courage of letting go. Twelve-year-old Sophie, newly orphaned, lives in a world where the dead linger in a frozen northern… 
A raw, poetic meditation on illness, mysticism, and the limits of understanding…
Staufenberg’s latest is an unflinching meditation on illness, vision, and the relentless pull of the unknown. At 12, a mysterious sickness nearly killed the author. What followed was… 
