I write because I have to—because words chase me until I give them a place to land. Poetry is my heartbeat; prose is how I breathe. I use language to trace the shape of my experiences, to hold beauty and ache in the same hand. Through my writing, I try to tell the truth—sometimes quietly, sometimes boldly. At the core of it all, I believe stories and poems can heal, disrupt, and connect us in ways nothing else can.