I’m Kiernan Osland—a historical fiction author drawn to the tender, hidden threads of the human story. I write novels that echo with longing, wrestle with loss, and reach for grace. My characters often stand at the edge of silence, of war, of love long buried—and they walk forward anyway, tracing the shape of a life remade.

Though I now write fiction, my creative journey began with poetry and painting. Words and brushstrokes were once my way through grief, through the tangled history of family and faith. That past still hums beneath every page I write. You may find traces of it in my poetry collection, Borne to Unfurl, and in the archived work I still hold dear.

But these days, I live inside story.

My current novel-in-progress, The Hand That Sows the Stars, follows a war-haunted fisherman crossing the Atlantic in search of the woman he once loved—and the meaning he thought he’d lost. It’s a story not just of redemptive love, but of legacy, memory, and the quiet resilience it takes to begin again.

I believe fiction can be a lantern. A compass. A kind of alchemy that transforms what haunts us into something beautiful, something true.

That’s why I write: to name what was unspoken. To offer tenderness where the world forgot to. To make meaning of the ache.

Thank you for being here. I hope you find something in these pages that speaks to the quiet parts of your story, too.