"When your life becomes a desert—sand shifting, burying your path, dance."

From poetry and painting to singing and dancing, creativity has brought me through some of my darkest times, and helped me fight (and write) my way back to the light.

Nowadays, writing poetry is like sitting in my comfy chair in front of a fireplace on a stormy winter day. It brings warmth and comfort, and it provides a window through which I can see myself and the world from a perspective I can understand.

I write to tame my wildest thoughts, to make sense of my struggles with mental health. I write to confront my past, my most painful, most human experiences, and give them a shape, a name, and a language. I write to make beauty from fear and despair, to transform the ordinary into art. I write to build a bridge to cross the deepest waters, to connect with myself, and with others. 

And that’s exactly what I hope my poetry does for you.