What Fire Made Of Me

This collection began in the aftermath of trauma.

Written across years of healing, these poems chronicle a life interrupted at thirteen by sexual violence and reshaped by survival. What was once girlhood was burned away too soon, leaving silence, rage, and the long shadow of memory. Yet from that ruin, something endured.

Each chapter unfolds like a body tempered by fire-grief turned to grit, fracture turned to form. Through unflinching honesty and lyrical force, these poems trace the violent transformation from innocence to endurance, from devastation to self-reclamation, from the ashes of a wounded child to the rise of a man forged in flame.

Tender yet unyielding, What Fire Made Of Me invites readers into the darkness-and into the hard-won light that followed.

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