Ethos & Mission
The Poet’s Room was built from what I couldn’t find—a space where language, recovery, and creative practice could coexist without performance or pretense. A place to remember that rebuilding a life and writing one are not separate acts.
I work with people who are rewriting what survival looks like—those at a turning point, between stories, between versions of self. People who want to stop performing strength and start practicing trust.
Transformation didn’t come in the breaking, or even in the healing—it came when I stopped trying to become someone else. When I started choosing what was already working. When I let the small things—language, ritual, attention—be enough.
That’s where my work begins: helping others return to what’s real, to rebuild structure and voice from the life they’re already living.
Through The Poet’s Room, I offer spaces for clarity, craft, and care—for people rebuilding voice, creative rhythm, and faith in their own direction.
-Annabelle Fern Praznik, MFA
Founder & Facilitator, The Poet’s Room LLC
Narrative Recovery & Creative Development Mentor
Professional Bio
Annabelle Fern Praznik is a poet and editor based in Colorado. Her work blends personal narrative with spiritual inquiry, exploring themes of recovery, trauma, and motherhood through a speculative, hybrid lens. Her poetry is formally inventive, often composed in syllabic lines, and grounded in embodied storytelling.
She holds a BA in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Colorado Boulder.
A former university instructor, Annabelle now leads The Poet’s Room—a studio for writing, recovery, and creative awakening. She designs workshops and mentorship experiences that bridge craft and care, helping people cultivate authorship, rhythm, and trust in their creative process.
Her editorial practice reflects a deep commitment to clarity, rigor, and creative agency—particularly for those rebuilding voice after silence, transition, or transformation.
Outside of her writing and services, Annabelle is active in her twelve-step program, sponsors women in recovery, and is completing her CCAR trainings toward the Recovery Coach Professional (RCP) designation and state licensure for peer-to-peer recovery coaching.
Annabelle’s work and life are led by a quiet pact with her younger self—to love what she loved, to go after what she once believed impossible, and to live beyond the shadows of addiction and trauma—while raising two children in a world alive with music, language, beauty, and the ease of belonging.
