Arune Savage

Born in Lithuania, raised in South Africa, and now questionably thriving in the Ozarks, Arune Savage is the author of Lost My Mind Here Someplace—a memoir that’s half sad confessional, half bitter comedy, and entirely too honest for polite company.

Her Substack blog (just trust me… don’t read it) is equal parts confessional booth and comedy show, chronicling her attempts to live authentically off-grid. This often involves making “educationally humiliating” videos, publishing essays about topics better left to therapy, and fully embracing public embarrassment as a lifestyle choice. When she isn’t writing about the delicate art of finding her sperm donor on Tinder, she’s creating large, unruly canvases that critics might describe as “Basquiat-inspired” (and she might describe as “please-don’t-sue-me”).

She also appeared on the second season of HBO’s Love Off the Grid, where viewers witnessed her natural state of undress and existential confusion while navigating the messy pursuit of love. (Don’t worry—they blurred the good bits and left the muffin top intact for artistic integrity.)

After deciding that modern society was basically a cult with worse snacks, Arune founded an intentional community in the Ozarks for artists, families, women, and anyone else trying to claw their way out of the society matrix. Between accidental goat ownership and experimental bread-making, she documents the chaos of self-reinvention and the spiritual perils of composting toilets, all while philosophizing about life at the edges of reason and WiFi signal.

Arune Savage writes, paints, and laughs at the absurdity of trying to unravel—and perhaps, if one is lucky, reweave—life on her own off-grid terms.