About

I started writing poetry late in high school while taking a creative writing class. I began with a poem ‘My Darkest Night’, about a terrible night fueled by insomnia and mania. Finding that I enjoyed writing, and that I had some talent for it, I continued to do so after the class ended and thru college. Writing became a form of therapy for me to deal with things going on in my life and a way for me to communicate with others how I felt. By the end of college I was diagnosed with Bipolar, and began medication and therapy to help deal with it. Slowly as the treatment got better, my need for poetry got less, and by the time I left college, I had all but stopped writing. Recently, realizing what I have been missing in my life, I have begun to write again and it feels great to be able to get these abstract feelings into a form that other people can interpret.

My poems cover a range of topics and styles, though most are usually in free verse because I like to just write what comes into my head. Topics range from dealing with mental illness, objects, animals, people, issues, and to abstract concepts. Really I just write about what I am feeling or what is on my mind.