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When people ask, “have you always wanted to be a poet? I tell them, “Not really. I didn’t even think I’d still be alive at this point.”
Spoiler alert: I’m still here.

I lived in an environment where it was very difficult to grow and I often felt like i was no good and misunderstood; I was the bad child, the black sheep, the ‘never going to amount to anything’, slutty, selfish girl. But it was through writing that I found a way to escape the toxicity of where I grew up and discover who I really was outside of who I was expected to be. (That’s the watered-down, internet version of things).

I’ve always been a writer. I wrote for the school newspaper when I was ten and started delivering newspapers on my bike around the neighborhood at that same time (yes, the actual old, paper newspapers, on a bike. alone. it was the 90s lol). I started writing songs when I was fifteen and through my teen years I filled countless journals with all my deepest, darkest thoughts. I later burned every single one of them so no one could ever read them.

Now I put all of my deepest, darkest thoughts into poetry books for the entire world to read.
When I got married in 2011 at twenty-three (omg, I know), the writing stopped because I knew that writing told me the truth and the truth was: I stayed an entirety of “too long” in a marriage that was slowly killing me.

But writing is what brought me back to life. Sometime around 2018, I started writing again: poetry this time. It’s like writing song lyrics but without the music.

In January 2020, with the encouragement of my Instagram friends and followers, I independently published my first poetry book, Still Growing Wildflowers. Shortly after that I separated from my then-husband and moved into an apartment in June 2020. It was here where I wrote my second poetry book, The Lovers, and published her in 2021. Then, as a thirty-five, single mother of two wolves (the human kind), my third poetry book, Made of Earth, came to life in 2022.

As a poet, I’ve come to realize that my poetry is not just a reflection of my life experiences, but a reflection of our collective human experience: both the brutal and the beautiful.
In my three-book poetry series, Still Growing Wildflowers, you'll find the inspiration and courage you need to take risks, embrace change, and go where you can grow ♥

If you're looking for poems about life, love, and healing from intergenerational trauma, then you'll like my poetry book series, Still Growing Wildflowers.

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