Meet The Books!

Semicolon: A Collection of Thoughts and Other Snippets is about a five-year journey ridden with mental illness and identity crises. As the narrator grapples with loneliness and conformity, she uses different writing structures as outlets for her unresolved emotions that show an unapologetic journey of growth and acceptance. Through poems, letters, and miscellaneous compositions, this collection highlights the struggle of complex emotions coexisting inside one mind.

Question Mark: The Freshman Experience is about the complexity of emotions that arise from the narrator’s first year of college. Through new experiences and relationships, the narrator begins to form questions about the future juxtaposed with feelings of nostalgia that resurface when redefining the idea of home. She debates the meanings of emotions now jumbled from moving away from everything she had ever known. As the narrator learns to grow in a new setting, this collection of poetry and written entries document the intricacies of leaving and letting go, as well as the feeling of returning anew.