Stories - Heartlines

My poetry, whether serious or playful, is driven by shaping a sense of self, and I think learning more about oneself greatly reflects on learning about the world.

I love solitude most days, listening to nothing but music and letting my imagination take root. Writing gives me immersion into a world of my own. I love how my fingers seem to move on their own when I get into a place in my head where words spill smoothly onto the screen.

Nothing quite moves or affects me the way theatre does—it is a living, breathing thing—and seeing some wonderful theatre in my early 20s while on an interstate trip solidified that this was where I needed to be.

I write to breathe. I write to make sense of a seemingly senseless world. I write to poeticise everything beautiful and horrible in the world and still, despite it all, inspire change and hope. I write for the next girl who dares to pick up a pen.

“I want kids to realise that we’ve all got the same things that intimidate us. To realise that you’re not on your own, I think that would help young people a lot… would help everyone a lot probably.”

“One day I was drawing a bug, and I thought I’m gonna make some bugs! And Yvonne came along and then I was doing bugs on T-shirts.”