The Synopsis

she was not birthed; she was forged. she climbed the tower of her shattered remnants and piece by piece, she reinvented. society taught her to think in black and white; the universe taught her to dream in color. she doesn't need air; she needs to want to breathe. and this is her placing her soul in your hands. this is her realizing she may be a single tree in this world of wilderness, but she is mighty green indeed.

this is inkwells.

wipe your feet off at the door.

Winner of the 2023 Donna Lynne Quille Award for Best Advocacy Prose

Magnificent, disturbing, and eloquent. . . inkwells. becomes not just a journey through mental anguish, but a rediscovery of the value of words to explain ourselves to ourselves, to give language to a state of being that is not translatable for all of us. . . She is talking to us through images made of words, materializing on the page as a separate but related link to her thoughts, to either the power or disempowerment of her language. . . It was a labor, a deliberate and slow translation of the heart and soul to the page.

Charlotte Glass, author of the "Allison Cassidy" Romance Series