Bryn E. Leetch has been a famed hairstylist for major blockbusters like The Hunger Games and Pirates of the Caribbean. Yet when the pandemic struck in 2020, she was among many Americans displaced and isolated by quarantine measures. This left her with a lot of time to reflect, collect, and compile a very moving book Beneath the Mask: An Artistic Look at the Pandemic And The Year That Changed the World Forever2020. It shares not only her account but also her message of hope and healing.
San Diego, CA – WEBWIRE – Monday, May 1, 2023
Bryn Leetch has given us what we need most right now a hand to hold while we dare look back from a safe distance. Mary Birdsong
Bryn E. Leetch is one of the premier hairstylists in the glamorous world of Hollywood. She has worked on the sets of blockbuster series such as Pirates of the Caribbean, The Avengers, and The Hunger Games.
Yet when the pandemic of 2020 started, she was among the millions of Americans displaced from their lives by quarantine measures. The experience has not only reshaped the way she had seen the world but also taken her down a new, unexpected path of authorship.
In 2022, she published Beneath the Mask, a mixed yet moving collection of poetry, personal accounts, reflections, and words of encouragement that were inspired by her pandemic experience.
For many people, the pandemic was a traumatic experience that played out at a traumatically slow pace. Leetch not only takes readers on a journey to her experience of it but also a journey on how it affected many other lives.
Several of the poems packed in her book talk about the severe cultural clashes that just boiled to the surface in American society. It also talks about the loss of very important people both close to Leetch as well as other tragic deaths mourned by American society at large.
Its not all words either. The book also contains a number of photographs, sketches, and other works of visual art with very powerful imagery on life during the pandemic.
Beneath the Mask: An Artistic Look at the Pandemic And The Year That Changed the World Forever2020 by Bryn E. Leetch is now set to spread its message of optimism and encouragement at book events around the world. Get a copy on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Beneath the Mask: An Artistic Look at the Pandemic And The Year That Changed the World Forever2020
Author | Bryn E. Leetch
Published date | August 18, 2022
Publisher | Fulton Books
Genre | Personal Growth
Author Bio
Two-time Emmy nominated Bryn E. Leetch is one of the premiere hair stylists in the industry. A native Californian, she has been working in the industry for over 25 years, including The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, and iconic feature films such as The Hunger Games franchise, Marvels The Avengers and Pirates of the Caribbean.
With her life-long passion for writing, Bryn became a first-time author in 2022 with Beneath the Mask. This is not only a book of poems and short stories, it is also a history and self-help book, detailed with original sketches of those we lost and photographs that depict how we dealt with 2020, one of the most difficult years in our lifetime. The book takes us all on an optimistic journey as we heal together through the written word.
Beneath the Mask brings vulnerability and optimism to the page as Bryn tackles topics such as grief, loss and the search for unity in a divided society. Her words come from a place of truth, a place where she cant hide and is propelled by her pen to say it straight forward. Writing about current events and people, Bryn conveys to the reader that as the tides may ebb and flow we must stay aware of our mental health.
Bryns poems are like short stories or conversations about our feelings and how we are dealing with the world as we know it today. As she colors between the lines with her fertile imagination, she will pull at your heart strings until things finally make sense revealing her Poetic News and bringing you the heart of the story every time.
