HOW TO BE ALONE

A hand-written book about finding happiness in solitude.

In 2009, poet and songwriter Tanya Davis collaborated with independent filmmaker Andrea Dorfman to produce a short video-poem entitled How to Be Alone. The short has since been featured at numerous film festivals, including The Vancouver Film Fest, The Worldwide Short Film Festival, and the VideoPoetry Festival in Berlin. The video has earned more than 5 million views and seen worldwide circulation on popular social networking platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, and Pinterest.
How to Be Alone is a book about being okay with being alone. It’s an inspirational how-to guide to embracing solitude rather than fearing it. From the bathroom to the coffee shop, the lunch counter to the move theater, How to Be Alone emphasizes that being alone doesn’t mean being lonely. It is a poetic tutorial on how to find happiness and freedom in solitude and how to thrive in a world that makes you feel bad if you’re alone.

Tanya Davis is a poet, storyteller, musician, and singer-songwriter who fuses these elements together in a refreshing matrimony of language and sound, side-stepping genre and captivating audiences in the process.