Growing into a woman is challenging for most...

...but imagine losing your mother to drugs and infidelity, getting your innocence ripped away, and being buried with premature responsibility. Unfortunately, along with too many others, Faith Foley has lived it, struggling to combat intense emotions, years and years of confusion, and heartbreak. One way she’s dealt with all this trauma and the ensuing depression and anxiety that has affected every aspect of her life, along with the “normal” teenage girl problems with boys, friends, and mishaps that further shredded her heart, was to write it down. Writing poetry has helped her brain to heal. My Tears Turn Into Ink is a raw, intense, and often agonizing glimpse into a teenager’s mind, heart, and journey to becoming a woman. It’s brutally honest, straightforward, and all-encompassing–giving the moments of good along with the bad.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Faith Foley started writing poetry with a writing assignment in eighth grade; her first poetry collection, reflections, was published by Legacy Book Press in 2020. She is currently attending St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, on a full tuition scholarship, studying early childhood education where she also participates in dance marathon and works with kindergartners as a student teacher. When she’s not studying, teaching, writing poetry, or raising money for the University of Iowa Hospital’s young patients, she enjoys expressing her creativity through painting and drawing as well as spending time with her three chickens, Miko, Jupiter, and Whopper. In addition to her dorm room, Faith lives with her dad; dog, Hope; and sister, Isabel, in Iowa. Her other sisters, Maddie and Justine, also live in Iowa.