Fellow Travelers in Recovery
Our Authors
Every author at Serenity Press is a fellow traveler — someone walking the road of recovery and sharing what they have learned. Their writing comes from lived experience, offered in the spirit of experience, strength, and hope. Grounded in 12-step principles.
Elizabeth Garcia
9 Years Sober
Women in Recovery
12-Step
Sobriety
Elizabeth Garcia has been sober for nine years. She writes about the messy, real, unglamorous parts of getting sober — the parts nobody talks about — and making those parts feel survivable. Her writing comes from lived experience, offered in the spirit of experience, strength, and hope. She is the author of Nine Years: A Memoir of Sobriety and The Women Who Stayed Sober.
Selected Writing
David Daniel
Recovery Writer
12-Step
Early Recovery
Sobriety
David Daniel writes from deep inside recovery — honest, unsentimental, and without pretense. A longtime member of the recovery community, his work captures the texture of sober life: the boredom, the clarity, the gratitude that arrives slowly, and the moments that remind you why you stayed. He is the author of Acceptance Is the Key.
Selected Writing
Amy Chen
3 Years Sober
Community
Young Recovery
12-Step
Amy Chen has been sober for three years and writes about what early recovery actually looks like for young people navigating sobriety in a world that runs on alcohol. Her work is honest about the social cost of getting sober, the FOMO, the loneliness, and the surprising discoveries that come with staying present. Her writing has appeared in the Sober Thoughts journal since 2023.
Selected Writing
Community
Recovery Gifts & Guides
Tools written by the people
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Books, journals, and workbooks from the authors above and others in our community. Reviewed, recommended, and grounded in 12-step experience.