Laura Ingram is a tiny girl with big glasses and bigger ideas. Her poetry and prose have been published in over seventy literary journals, among them The Cactus Heart Review, Gravel, Glass Kite Anthology and Voice of Eve. Her first collection, Junior Citizen’s Discount, was released with Desert Willow Press May 2018; her children’s book Stand Up Was subsequently released with Nesting Tree books August 2018. Laura loves Harry Potter and Harry Styles. She is a sophomore creative writing student.
Ingram has something original to say here about the trauma inherent to becoming a woman and the longing for a respite from it that her eating disorder cannot truly satisfy. These are her own interesting words, not borrowed from a bank of how eating disorders are popularly understood. I would recommend it for its keen insight and unusual, searing imagery.