Editor ' s Note

EDITOR’S NOTE

Dear eleven year old Megan,

This collection is in dedication to you. You were fierce at eleven and you are fierce almost thirty years later. You think you are alone and feel like no one understands you. I want you to know that you make it. That you grow into a beautiful and bold woman that claims her voice without apology and helps women heal their own.

You are warrior. You don’t give up, even though some days you feel like you might. I want you to know the words, trauma, and events you experience will not break you, rather they will make into the roaring woman you are today.

I love this picture of you so much, because it captures you in your element. Nose deep in a dictionary, underlining words you liked the sound of, so you could plug them poems and stories you would write. You are strange, but in the best freaking way! I love your sassy face that knows what she wants and fights for truth even if it hurts.

You are a rockstar and I love you for teaching me to be the woman I am today.

xo, Sunflower

*This collection was so moving to curate. Thank you women for sharing your words with me. I have no doubt the little girl in you is so proud of you are and who you’re becoming. Your words spoke to me and I know will speak to so many others. Thank you for being brave and l listening to the voice of little you. She appreciates you creating space to hear her.

Keep roaring, Megan