Bramble

by Olivia Barnes

This book does not make me look beautiful. I cannot paint myself as a gentle flower, as an elegant rose. This book is not a moral highroad but the collection of my brokenness, a menagerie. It is years of tearing myself down to the marrow, stripping ego, in an attempt to find unanswered whys. It is a decade of love, unrecognizable to me, looking me in the face and never once turning its back. Unabashed. Unashamed. Unapologetic. This book is my humanity. This is the first published work of Olivia Barnes', complete with hand-drawn artwork by the author.

117 pages, Paperback

Published September 14, 2018

About the author

Published author (‘Bramble’ [2018], ‘She Will Speak Series’ [2019]) and illustrator, Olivia Barnes was born in San Antonio, TX, grew up in Florida and is currently living in Georgia. Olivia has been writing since before she knew how to read, and spent most of her youth between and during classes doing so. Love and heartbreak is her central theme, as well as societal issues including race, gender and sexuality.

Interested in writing, art, nature, music, food, cats (even though she's allergic) and Japanese language and culture. Her favorite season is autumn.