Tag: poetry

Dawn Hosmer

What lead you to write? I’ve enjoyed writing for as long as I can remember. When I was in 2nd grade, I wrote my first book The Lame Girl and The White Steed. It was such a sad, depressing little book. In high school, I wrote boatloads of poetry...

Phyllis Morneau

What led you to write? To be honest, although I loved reading books as a child, I didn’t have a passion to write until I was 51 years old, in 2004, when my husband was stationed in Iraq. I wrote to my husband faithfully every day, either by email...

Cynthia Yoder

What lead you to write? When I was eight, I started typing my poems on my father’s Smith Corona typewriter. I only know this because my grandmother kept a poem, dated it – and mailed it to me when I was in my twenties! Both parents encouraged me and...

Ginger Elinburg

What lead you to write? I needed a place to escape and writing gave me that place. Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue writing? No. I’ve been writing in some form, poetry and short horror in the beginning, since I was in middle school. What...

Darío Aguilar Peregrina

Hi, everyone. I’m, Darío Aguilar Peregrina, a Mexican author who likes to tell many stories about my culture, Action, Darkness, Mature Themes, Natural Disasters, Sports, Fantasy, Tech, etc. What lead you to write? I started writing after watching movies like Spider-Man,The Day After Tomorrow, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and...

Nina Romano

1.What lead you to write? I’ve always written. When I was young, I wrote mostly poetry and as I grew it just became a part of me—a poet. I love stories and story-tellers. As a child, I sat around the kitchen table and listened to my grandmother, mother and...

JAnn Bowers

What lead you to write? When I first heard Robert Frost’s poetry at the age of 12, I knew then I wanted to be a poet. Was there a person that influenced you to pursue writing? My kids keep me moving forward in my writing. The are always encouraging...

Rob Bliss

What lead you to write? Extreme boredom as a child, and many deaths in the family. I escaped into books more than into anything else, so it was natural for me to eventually want to write books of my own. Was there a particular person that influenced you to...

Suzy Davies

What lead you to write? I’ve always enjoyed writing. I started writing as a child because I came from a dual language family and was fascinated by language. I started writing professionally in 2014. Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue writing? A very early influence...