SMITTEN: This is What Loves Looks Like

A book of poetry by women for women, an LGBTQA+ collection that I am proud to have contributed to.

“A WOLF” is a poem very dear to my heart as it’s the very first poem I’d ever written and became my first literary piece to ever find publication, I wrote it during a time of internal strife and rage, so much rage. I’m proud to have it shown among the many talented poets included in the Indie Blu(e) collection.

SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like is an anthology of love poetry by 120 lesbian and bisexual women ranging in age from 15 to 87 from around the globe. This is a book that should be gifted. In spite of its implied audience, Smitten is not just for women who adore women. It is for those whose hearts twist and skin prickles at romance, who know the flight of butterflies in their stomachs, who long for the feeling of home in another’s heart.

Since its release, SMITTEN has sold over 6000 copies and has appeared on the recommended reading lists of universities doing MFA programs in Gender Studies and LGBTQ studies. The collection was also a featured Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards.

There is a planned sequel of sorts, SMITTEN 2, in the process of being created thanks to the massive success. I’ve already written a piece for the upcoming collection where I discuss the much-underrepresented asexuality group of the spectrum.