I started writing stories when I was very little. The first poem I wrote was when I was 11 years old at a Girl Scout meeting. My troop leader said, 'We're going to write poems today' and it was so effortless for me. I loved it instantly and went on to write poems privately for many years. It wasn't until I went to university that I shared my work out loud with others. I signed up for a class called 'Poetry as Performance' and that course dramatically impacted me as a writer, performer and person. It introduced me to an open mic and poetry slam in Boston called The Cantab Lounge that I proceeded to go to every Wednesday night for six years. Many years later, my first tertiary teaching role was for a very similar class at California State University Northridge.
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