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Books and numerous short stories and essays

Honored by the NYC Big Book Award, San Francisco Book Festival, Regal Summit Book Award, Excellence in Indie Publishing Awards, Beverly Hills Book Award, Readers Favorite Book Award, and many more!

Straw Shoes

Ah Ling, a 19th-c. Chinese farmer, leaves his family to try his Fate in Gold Rush–era San Francisco. Written across decades this final work resonates with hard-won wisdom.

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In the Throes

A revolutionary work of speculative fiction that explores the awakening of intelligence and the coming into awareness of an evolutionary mishap on a forbidding apocalyptic planet.

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I Truly Lament

A varied collection of stories: inmates in death camps; survivors of these camps; disenchanted Golems complaining about their designated rounds, and more.

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About the Author

Teacher and psychotherapist, I hold masters degrees in secondary education and social work from Queens College of the City University of New York and Stony Brook University. For more than thirty years I taught English and social studies in New York secondary schools. An analytically trained and insight-oriented psychotherapist, I have incorporated my abiding interest in Eastern thought into my life and my work, leading workshops on experiential and psycho-spiritual approaches to inner awareness…

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LATEST REVIEWS

“Having read and been continually impressed with almost all of Mathias’ books, it is refreshing to enter his thoughts anew in what may just his finest work to date – Straw Shoes. Reading this fine novel reminds us of the profound depth of intelligence that is Mathias Freese. His eloquent words are never presumptuous or distancing, but instead invite us into the sphere of his insightful mind, a jurisdiction that becomes a golden opportunity to engage and be in his moment. Mathias is wise, thoughtful, inspiring – and a very fine writer. This is a gentle masterwork!”

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  • My Final Book – Straw Shoes Just Published

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    Caylah Coffeen

    I’m happy to announce the publication of my final book, Straw Shoes, released June 9th, 2026. Betty Lee Sung inspired me to write my book. I met with her between 1969 and 1972. I was working on a Title 111 federal project, a racial-ethnic one, writing curricula for schools. I met with her in person […]

  • In the Throes Featured on BookDNA.com

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    Caylah Coffeen

    My book, In the Throes, was recently featured on Shepherd.com, now BookDNA, a book recommendation website. I shared 5 books that inspired me when writing In the Throes, in the hopes that readers will find my book, and others with similar themes that they’ll enjoy. Titled “The best books to awaken your mind to spiritual […]

  • The Spark of Life – A Self-reminiscence on my 84th Birthday – Essay 5

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    Caylah Coffeen

    By Mathias Freese Thoreau said it best, “to live deliberately,” probably the best use of anadverb in the English language. Yet, how do we go about livingmoment to moment? The answer is written on the wind. As my humanmechanism deliberately falls prey to aging, I see less clearly at nightat the wheel, my driving skills […]