L. J.  Knight, just one of many names we go by, is a writer and poet of the vivid dark and painful. Growing up with selective mutism, depression, and PTSD, she’s no stranger to suffering or hardship, using poetry to cope and express the feelings she’s had to stuff deep inside. A lover a plants and animals, L.J. is studying wildlife science while working on finishing her first fantasy-mystery novel and a poetry book about her experiences with mental illness. She devours books like candy and knits until her fingers hurt and tries to learn seven different hobbies at once. She also lives with dissociative identity disorder and her 60+ alternate identities help her manage her past, her disabilities, and aid her as she wars for dreams that seem far out of her reach.