My path into poetry was unexpected. In college I studied Fine Art at Canterbury Art College in the UK and Interior Design at Miami International University of Art and Design. Much of my career has been in some form of visual art. During the pandemic, having never written a poem, nor studied poetry, I found my imagination was ignited in a way I hadn't previously known. Walking alone through the forests near my home, ideas, concepts, circumstances, experiences, etc... started to encircle me in the form of words and sentences and seemed to call for an expression that wasn't visual. I started jotting these reflections down and weaving them together into loose drafts for poems.
As a severely dyslexic child I had never considered writing in any form.
In the past year, I have been fortunate an astonished to have had a few poems published and won or placed in a few competitions.