"I ran from the country of my birth because I did not want to die. I am a child of state erasure."I was born on a war-torn block. Bombs shook the ground and lit up the sky. Fire hung in flaming threads from blown-out windows in abandoned buildings. Foot soldiers...

I’ve been invited several times in the last two years to write about how writing transforms the story I tell about myself, how it saves my life. I desire to write about this absolute truth. I set the intention and make the time. I’ve been given deadlines by...

“No one is coming to save us, so we create, we connect, and we save ourselves.” -Ben Weakley

“I have learned through art to accept the gifts of my subconscious, to heed the tug of the wisdom inside of me.” -Seema Reza