I’ve always written letters, and I still keep them—-boxes tucked away in my closet, a quiet archive of the people I’ve been and the people I’ve known.

As a hospice volunteer, I learned the weight a few honest words can carry, especially at the end of life. That experience inspired me to create Epistolary—-a place for saying what needs to be said, preserving what matters, and staying connected across time, distance, and loss.

I started out as a journalist and, over the past twenty years, have moved through copywriting and writing direction, helping people and organizations tell their stories in all kinds of forms.

I also hold a master’s degree in anthropology, which taught me to pay closer attention——to people’s small rituals, their private meanings, and the quiet ways they make sense of a life. More recently, I’ve deepened that understanding through death doula training at La Mort’s School of Sacred Death, exploring how we prepare for, talk about, and remain connected through death and grief.

All of these threads have found their way into Epistolary.

-Linda Knittel