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If you’re a book-sniffing, poetry-loving, literature enthusiast who is easily distracted by the aesthetic lure of dark academia, you’ve come to the right place.

Hi (*waves shyly*) I’m Ella, an award-winning young poet and amateur journalist. I’m so glad you’re here🤎

To me, poetry and literature are languages of expression; I do not pretend to be fluent in the language of poetry and literature, but I am learning. As a reader, I feel the freedom of readership is that a text can be whatever we want it to be. As a writer, I feel the burden of authorship is that a text can be whatever the reader wants it to be. Now, this isn’t to say there is a right way to read — there most certainly isn’t — there are just different ways of reading. I write poetry, a vulnerable art form, and the poems I share with you are yours the second I hit “publish.” Is there a personal story behind them? Yes. Will they mean to you what they mean to me? Probably not. But I’m okay with that. All I ask is that you’re gentle with my words, that you peel them from the page as carefully as I laid them down, because at the end of the day, they are pieces of me.

Writing is a political act, and often a violent undoing of the self. It is a protest, a peace offering, a punchline, and a personal experience that the universality of is revealed. Through my poetry I aim to make others — even if just one person … (maybe you?) — feel seen and understood.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald