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“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.” – Octavia E. Butler TW: Mentions of suicide attempts. As I get nearer and nearer to the completion of this latest poetry collection, I can’t help but reflect on what brought me to this point where I am writing it: my journey through who I was to who I am now. Many of the things that forced the three collections that comprise In All the Ways, a Drowning out of me still haunt me to this day, sometimes feeling

Many of you may remember me by my dead name, and the work which was published under it. And you may remember my dramatic, kind of explosive departure from the world of the literary arts. I remember, as well. And it turns out there was a lot more swimming under the surface than I realized at the time. And there's always more to discover, but this is why poetry is ultimately so important to me. Let's start from my brand new beginning: What I didn't know at the time was that I d