This poem describes the connection between my past and present self. I've recently been reminiscing about my childhood years, where life seemed so much simpler.

I think writing is a form of therapy at times, and so I looked at this poem as a way to rearrange words and phrases in a way that could help me face my fear.

For my creative submission, I decided to submit a script called "APRIL 2.0." I was the sole writer for this screenplay and drafted it over several weeks.

I wrote this short story a little while ago when I was thinking about an old friend. I really liked the rough draft I began with and I continued to workshop the story, taking out and adding new parts. While the narrative changed throughout the process, the characters stayed generally the same.

This collection of poems is called Love is Blueming as each poem relates to both love, and the color blue. I chose the color blue because it is a beautiful color that represents many things, mainly loyalty, imagination, and inspiration.

These poems are fictional stories but the themes all relate to experiences and emotions I have. "Its the End and the Beginning All Over Again" is the narrator reminiscing through the seasons of her childhood and how everything has changed since then.

I created this piece of writing a couple of years ago when I was new to the creative writing program and now that I have continued to pursue this talent of mine I've revised and adapted the piece so that I am now able to feel proud of it.

I recently moved to the US from India and my pieces each reflect different emotions centred around my move. Moving halfway across the globe is stressful enough and my first piece 'Hope - A Conquest' talks about how I wake up everyday to find the smallest of things inspiring me to be hopeful when things seem bleak and out of control.

1) This artwork reflects my struggles with family dynamics. It explains the cycle that ensues with a sibling.

2) This artwork reflects the feeling of eagerly wanting to make the person you love happy out of love.

As a teenage girl, I am always thinking of ways to avoid creepy old men (not to generalize but many others and myself have had to deal with them numerous times).

Most of my poetry is very personal and mostly fueled by my emotions at a given moment. This particular poem however is not inspired by personal experience but from a movie I watched called Promising Young Woman.

My piece represents how I perceive a lot of our beauty standards, especially for women. I do believe that the beauty standards are slowly changing, and I really appreciate that.

As a writer of creative nonfiction, my poetry not only draws inspiration from my personal experiences, but it recreates them. Through my poetry, I seek deeper truths about my own life. I also hope to extend my life to readers to contemplate life from new perspectives and to seek understanding over our common experiences.

I wrote this poem in the middle of the night, in the midst of a mental breakdown, and I wasn’t expecting it to be of substance. But I revisited it in the morning and spent some time revising it.

This here is a short screenplay titled "Walking On The Wrong Side". The script is the telling of a teenage girl with Asperger's named Jenna. She goes through her day as if she were an artificial being in her own small imagination.

My short story focuses on the presence of generational trauma in families. It is something I have seen impact many people, and I wanted to write about how it might look for a young girl and her mother.

I reflected on my different identities and how different points of view would affect the people around me. From there I wrote my heart out and came up with how I wanted to do it. For these poems I did the different languages I know English, Spanish and I'm learning French.

"Waiting" is a personal account of my own perspective on an attempt to live a normal life, seemingly waiting for my own struggles with Bipolar Disorder to emerge.

My piece focuses on grief, and my personal struggle and acceptance of my grandfather's passing. It was the very first piece I wrote this school year, and one I am definitely proud of. As it is one of my favorite pieces I've written, I really wanted to submit it this year.

In 2018, I participated in the Black Joy Poetry Workshop with Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe, and our work was published in Black Joy: an Anthology of Black Boy Poems, in 2019.