Anne Frank says it perfectly: "I can shake off everything if I write: my sorrows disappear. My courage is
reborn." Writing has carried me along the way since I was a young girl. I used the mystery of words to escape the mind that plagued me time and time again. The written word meant so much to me that I decided to study English in college. Since graduation in 2018, I have written a handful of novels and have found the beauty in silence, a notebook and a pen in my hand.