Susan Pogorzelski

Sometimes everything I've been through comes rushing back and leaves me a little breathless. How I survived. How I turned pain into purpose and purpose into passion. How my soul knew there was so much more than what I was experiencing. How I forced myself to go on. How I stayed. How I thrived. I don't think I allowed myself to fully recognize myself before this moment. I'd been heading here--years of transforming and healing and growing, evolving in confidence and self-love a

Lately I've been reflecting on the importance of art and culture in the world and in our own lives--how it fuels us and revives us and becomes such a vital part of our very being. Art is an integral part of my very being. As a writer, words and the pictures they paint are how I express the truest parts of myself, the deepest depths of my heart. In my fiction, I share my very soul--my dreams, my fears, my philosophy that is ever-evolving and growing. Art, whether it be writing