Originally announced July 30, 2026
I had originally planned to release my poetry book this September.
But life changed.
After losing my mom, releasing the book this year just doesn’t feel right anymore. Grief has always found its way into my writing, and I already know that what I’m experiencing right now is going to become part of the work I create.
So I’ve made the decision to postpone the book until 2027.
I want to include 2026.
This year has changed me in ways I’m still trying to understand, and it wouldn’t feel right to close this collection without allowing space for what this year has become. There are already poems I’ve written through the grief of losing my mom, just as I’ve written through so much of the loss, love, anger, caregiving and change that came before it.
The book will also have a new name, but I’m keeping that to myself for now.
This wasn’t an easy decision. I was excited to finally release something I’ve spent years building, but I also don’t want to rush something this personal simply because I had given myself a release date.
This book has always been a reflection of my life.
And unfortunately, my story wasn’t finished where I thought it was.
So I’m giving it another year. Another chapter. Another collection of words that I never expected I would have to write.
The book will come in 2027.
It will just be a little different than I originally imagined.
Then again, so am I…