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.

I wanted to paint the picture of a hopeless child turning into a hopeful young adult, despite my environment breeding otherwise.

My first poem ”animal” depicts a bear cub’s thoughts towards a fish his mother ate.

This collection of poetry is a commentary on the autonomy of being a girl.

I wrote this piece because of an idea that came to me while walking past the rows of flowers my family and I would see whenever we took walks outside our neighborhood.

My friends and I in Creative Writing wrote a script about someone pooping their pants because we decided to take a break from all of the serious pieces we have been writing these past four fears.