Tears Over Spilled Beer is a poetry chapbook that details healing from sexual and physical assault, intimate partner violence, and childhood trauma. It was conceived over 11 months after the end of an abusive relationship, and includes thought-provoking pieces such as pages from a police report and poems on queer identity. 

As this is my first published work, some of the imagery and metaphors in this book are clunky! That’s okay. I have the rest of my life to publish more works of poetry, continued and everyone needs a first: this project was my lifeline after I was assaulted. At some point in the creation of this work, I began caring more about the quality of the poetry rather than just vomiting my feelings into my phone’s Notes app and applying random line-breaks to sound ‘poet-y.’ The poems in this book are not in chronological order, but I hope you can see the evolution in my skill as you read.