My poetry collection, The Unseen
My short story, Ambition and Rejection, was awarded the Gold Key in the 2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Ambition and Rejection is still the story I consider to be my best-written story, which was recognized in my region as the best work among my peers and nominated for a national award. Upon receiving the Gold Key, Ambition and Rejection was displayed in a few exhibitions in New Jersey. The story is now available to read under the editors' choice section of Teen Ink where it is published, while also uploaded on Wattpad and this website. My poetry collection, The Unseen, was awarded the Silver Key in the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. While the Silver Key is not as prestigious as the Gold Key because works are not nominated or judged at the national level, I am still proud of the poems within this collection. I write because I simply cannot live peacefully without conjuring stories. Last year, I began writing a poetry collection that now stands at over a hundred po