Survival of the Fittest

Freak! Weirdo! Creep! These are the unnecessary names 15-year-old Matthew DiMarco had been called for a majority of his life. Struggling with schizophrenia since the incident he underwent at eight years old, he soon found many voices within his own head that weren’t there before, although two voices became the most prominent: Innocence and Deviant, and he began an unbreakable friendship with none other than Michael Rogers.

Lavender Snow prefers to keep her personal life. Before this, she managed to publish her first poem I’ll Never Forget at her local community college in her sophomore year of college. She also began writing in order to make those who suffer from mental illness and are treated as though they’re outcasts, feel like they are seen, heard, and understood to some extent.