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November 14, 2019

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July 11, 2019

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January 13, 2019

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Publications

Raw Fragments

Anthology of Writing by Stratford STEM Magnet Students, 2025

Embrace the Rain

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2024

Unstuck in Time

Anthology of Writing by Stratford STEM Magnet Students, 2023

An Odyssey to Peace

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2023

At Our Essence

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2020

Mystical and Made of Glass

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2019

Voyages and Visitors

Stories and poems by the teen writers at Studio NPL and Southern Word, 2019

Reflections Unseen

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2018

On This Complicated Planet

Stories and poems by the teen writers at Studio NPL and Southern Word, 2018

Empty and Beautiful, Yet Full of the Sea

Poems from the Adolescents of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, 2017