The Sad Truth: Stories I had to Survive Before I Could Tell Them

In The Sad Truth, I write from the places where childhood trauma, grief, anxiety, motherhood, and survival meet. These poems move through rooms that memories keep locked, the silence that taught a child to shrink, and the long aftermath of learning to live inside a nervous system built for danger. But this book is not only a book about what was taken. It is also about the women who remained, the one who learned to name the ghosts, mourn what should have been, and become her own safe space. ...