I was born in Jacksonville, Florida where I spent a few years before moving to rural Kentucky where I spent the majority of my adolescence. My time there has shaped me and how I view the world in ways that only poverty and trauma can. It’s this trauma and my rocky journey with mental health that gives life to my poetry. I hope that by publishing my poetry one day that I can help at least one person who can relate to the feelings and message behind my writing feel less alone.