Hello everyone! Here's your weekly blog post, this time featuring a recent poem of mine that placed second in The Young Writers Initiative's Heritage contest and also was featured in Juven II (lit mag). It details my experience with my mom's culture and I’m so excited to share this with you! Our Father, who art … Continue reading Lord’s Prayer
My Writing
Heart and Mind: A Poem
Update: I'll only be posting once or twice a week now that school has started, but there's a couple double features in the next couple days... Stay tuned for that! Also: you know, never in a million years did I think I'd be writing this many poems during quarantine, but here we are. There's just … Continue reading Heart and Mind: A Poem
TYWI
Every two or three months, my local library publishes a literary magazine called Wordplay, as a part of the Teen Writer's Club. We recently finished an edition for August, in which I wrote a segment about my involvement in TYWI, an organization meant to uplift young writers and artists everywhere. I decided I wanted to … Continue reading TYWI
SSABD: Quote II
When I first deliberated on this novel idea last year (Starless Skies and Broken Dreams), I knew exactly what I wanted to bring to the reader's attention: fear. My protagonist, Lucy, would struggle with this emotion throughout the story as she is suddenly transported from her own world, similar to ours, into a civilization on … Continue reading SSABD: Quote II
Memories: Poem
Just arrived home from a camping trip and thought I would write something inspired by the woods. I guess the point I really wanted to drive home was that growing up means dealing with demons, and every demon has a price if you let them live in your head too long. - A girl and … Continue reading Memories: Poem
Prosed 