The barely restrained ferocity in my words will either caress your cheek or punch you in the jaw.

Writer, editor, procrastinator, big talker. Author of The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays https://www.irenasmith.com/

Viewing the world in poetry

(He/They) Poet. Thespian. YA Novelist.

Irish | Writer | Photographer | Musician | Wanderer/Wonderer

Irish writer based in London. Tech policy, possible futures, politics. @mariafarrell http://www.crookedtimber.org

Avid reader, writer, traveler, with a prolific dab

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.