Author Description

"You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. " James 1: 3 The MessageThis book is a product of that pressure; following more than a decade of my literary journey, "True Colors: Retrieving My Rainbow", explores conflicted adolescents and flowering young adult life through the abstract lens of poetry and short stories. The journey begins Summer 2006 (during a time when I felt hated by the world and hated myself even more) when my family moved more than 200 miles from my childhood home in West Virginia to the Charlotte Metro area. Upon arrival all of my vices including: my voice, my color, my culture, my community, and especially my queerness was all exposed to hatred and ignorance in the world. It would be years before I would find peace with GOD again and even longer before I would find a piece of GOD still alive in me. From overcoming a severe twenty-five year speaking disability to fighting to come out of the closet to navigating life after the closet, I've had to fight for my voice, my place in community, and for my rainbow aka my soul. "True Colors: Retrieving My Rainbow", gives light to that journey, this is my story, these are my true colors!