I was given the advice early on as a young writer to “do anything else if I could” and “only pursue writing if I absolutely had to.” I think that’s terrible advice, even though I did feel like I had to. Woe to me (and everyone around me) if I’m not writing.

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For me, if something (an emotion, an idea, an opinion) is not written down, then it doesn’t exist. So I create in order to keep myself alive.

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I began writing poetry as a fifth grader in elementary school. I knew then there was something valuable in being able to create with language.

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