Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me... And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

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