I am driven by life and the many situations that it holds for each individual.  I write from experience and from sight.  My surroundings feed me and I am provided through my own trials with the words that I share,  I have been writing since the age of 12 thanks to 2 of my middle school teachers who saw potential in me and stopped at nothing to ensure that I saw it as well.  They led me to follow the poetry of the likes of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Maya Angelou, and many others.