By this time, this age, I feel like a withering 45-year old woman. Only half-alive, with drives that plunge then emerge all of a sudden from a dark, sullen place that no man would like to know, or wouldn’t be interested at all. And see that I am only 21, at this age I should feel 21 and nothing less or more.
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Gretchen is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist from the Philippines, where she embraces life while managing bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her confessional pieces unpack the complexities of grief, healing, motherhood, love, and intersections, garnering recognition from the Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and Navigator's Travel Writing Competition.

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