I wrote “A Mirror Worth Your Life” to express how I feel when people don’t give me the respect I deserve by misgendering and deadnaming me.

“Me” is a culmination of what I think of myself, or at least of myself from last year.

I’m a writer who enjoys having specific challenges for my writing such as including certain words or genres or writing to an image or art piece.

As a teenage girl, I’ve really struggled with stereotypes and the consequences of nonconformity.

This poem was created to depict feelings of grief through the story of a plane.

It is a piece of non-fiction inspired by the movie Ladybird and my own experiences with my mother.

Dark Refuge came from an assignment we had, where you had to include certain words in your piece.

I began writing this piece thinking about how I witnessed my grandpa being carried out of my house in a body bag when I was younger and how I experienced grief.

Emily Dickinson is a great inspiration to me, and I recently was drawn to her poem ”In this short Life that only lasts an hour.”

I wrote this piece in the middle of July while wishing for October.

I wrote this piece for a 100-word microfiction assignment in my Creative Writing 2 class.

My poem is about my love for the ocean and anything related to the sea.

I have always loved writing, but poetry sounded terrible to me before I tried it.

I have always loved writing, but poetry sounded terrible to me before I tried it.

In my art I am to capture a small facet of myself. A caption of my own personality or voice.

This story was pretty fun to write (humor is always fun to write), and I think it encompasses the image pretty well.

This piece is about feeling pressured by yourself to do good in everything that you try, and then the disappointment if you don’t.

These pieces are inspired by a month I spent living in Japan.

This piece was originally written to a photograph by Mark Coggins of a woman resting on a pig’s back in its pen.

This is one of my favorite things I’ve ever written.