Brianna Wiest is an American writer and poet, born in 1992 in New York City, who studied professional writing at Elizabethtown College. Published by Thought Catalog Books, she is known for short essays on self-understanding and personal growth, collected in 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think (2016), followed by The Mountain Is You (2020), on self-sabotage, and The Pivot Year (2023), a book of daily meditations. She has also published the poetry collection Salt Water (2017). Her books have been translated into dozens of languages; the German edition of 101 Essays topped the Spiegel non-fiction list in 2022.
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Brianna Wiest is an American writer and poet, born in 1992 in New York City, who studied professional writing at Elizabethtown College. Published by Thought Catalog Books, she is known for short essays on self-understanding and personal growth, collected in 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think (2016), followed by The Mountain Is You (2020), on self-sabotage, and The Pivot Year (2023), a book of daily meditations. She has also published the poetry collection Salt Water (2017). Her books have been translated into dozens of languages; the German edition of 101 Essays topped the Spiegel non-fiction list in 2022.