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How she has dealt with bipolar, depression and Poetry
Sophia Falco is a young talented award winning poet, mental health advocate and a blogger for the International Bipolar Foundation. At only 26, she has won multiple awards and published numerous poems and her famously known chapbook, The Immortal Sunflower. She walks Spooye through her journey with bipolar disorder and poetry.
“I started writing poetry after I was given a poetry project my senior year in high school so I’ve been writing for about 7 years now. I am ever so grateful for that project because otherwise it probably would have taken me longer to get reintroduced to poetry. In 8th grade I annotated two amazing poetry books for class titles: This Connection of Everyone with Lungs by Juliana Spahr, and Loose Sugar by Brenda Hillman. I was really into reading those books and annotating them, however the writing aspect of poetry didn’t stick with me then. I started writing and became committed to my craft after high school on my own terms. Then I officially started taking creative writing classes when I attended the University of California, Santa Cruz.”
She further says,
“My chapbook, The Immortal Sunflower (UnCollected Press, December 2019) was published as a winner of The Raw Art Review poetry chapbook when I was still a…
