The Story Reset
A focused intensive that clarifies your voice, central story, signature concepts, and next 90 days of content.
See what is includedEditorial & social media advisory
I help distinctive businesses find their voice.
I give founder-led, hospitality, destination, and cultural brands the editorial direction to sound unmistakably like themselves—and give people a reason to care.
Poetry-shaped attention.
Business-ready direction.
15+ yearsEditorial and creative leadership
MFAPoetry, New England College
3 booksPoetry and creative writing
8 yearsUniversity-level teaching
Ways to work together
Choose the direction you need.
You bring the business knowledge. I find the central story, define the voice, and create the editorial direction your team can put to work.
Creative Advisor
Ongoing senior guidance for a business with staff or collaborators available to bring the work to life.
Discuss this engagementFractional Direction
Editorial leadership for launches, rebrands, campaigns, and organizations entering a new chapter.
Discuss this engagementThe difference
Poetry taught me that meaning rarely lives in one thing. It lives in the charged space between things.
Between a founder and the reason she began. Between a place and the people who return to it. Between what a business makes and what that work makes possible. That is where the real story gathers.
Why Poetic Entanglement
Poetry is not decoration.
It is a way of paying attention.
I came to poetry first through song lyrics and the fascination of watching words fit together, create new images, and make new meaning. That practice became an editor’s way of seeing: listen closely, find the living voice, and resist forcing it into somebody else’s aesthetic.
Notice the telling detail.
A poet sees the gesture, object, phrase, or ritual that contains the larger truth. Businesses are full of those details.
Let the work sound like itself.
Strong editorial direction does not impose a fashionable tone. It recognizes and nurtures the voice already trying to emerge.
Connect what belongs together.
People remember relationships: place and memory, craft and character, conviction and consequence. Connection turns information into meaning.
A focused editorial intensive
The Story Reset
For a good business whose public story has not yet caught up with the quality of its work. Especially useful before a launch, rebrand, new season, or renewed push for visibility.
$3,500 fixed engagement
You leave with
- 01Founder conversation
- 02Brand and social review
- 03Voice and messaging guide
- 04Five signature content concepts
- 0590-day editorial direction
- 06Final strategy session
Best-fit clients
Distinctive by nature.
Hospitality and destination brands
Founder-led businesses
Independent retail and lifestyle brands
Creative professionals
Arts and cultural organizations
Businesses entering a new chapter
About Ivy Page
An editor’s eye for what matters.
I grew up in and around Milledgeville, Georgia, and came to poetry first through song lyrics. I began college at 22 while raising two young daughters, changed my path from nursing to literature, earned a BA in English and an MFA in poetry, and spent eight years teaching writing at the university level.
My mentors taught me to see a work as an editor, to let it have its own voice, and to nurture that voice. I have carried that practice through more than 15 years of writing, publishing, teaching, and creative leadership—and now into the stories of businesses and organizations.
My poetry explores transformation, connection, nature, fragility, grit, and continued hope. My advisory work asks the same essential question: what is alive here, and what language will let other people feel it?
MFA in Poetry · Published author · Former university writing lecturer · Longtime editor and publisher
Based in New York’s North Country. Available locally and remotely.
View advisory overviewThe poetry behind the practice
A life shaped by language.
Published poetry, editorial work, and teaching are not a side note to this practice. They are where its standards were formed.
Elemental
A collection of transformation, nature, connection, fragility, and the possibility of redefining the self.
Any Other Branch
Poems of emotional crossroads, choices, consequence, humor, sensuality, and psychological urgency.
Creative Writing Workshop
A practical guide to concrete language, figurative speech, literary forms, and the craft of making meaning.
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