Ariel Dawn : part one

Ariel Dawn lives in Victoria, British Columbia with her son and daughter. She spends her time writing, reading, studying Tarot, and working on her first collection of prose poems. Recent work appears in Guest, Train, and Litro.

How did you first engage with poetry?

I grew up in the country, rather a misfit, tormented by mental illness, but sometimes my mother played Leonard Cohen, and there were fireplaces and walls of books; so I began to listen, read, write, in order to live.