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Tanya Rose Medrano didn’t plan on being a writer, much less a published poet. Initially, her writing was a therapy exercise.

“It started out as an outlet because I had severe depression,” Medrano explained. “My doctors said, ‘Start writing as an outlet so that way all your feelings can come out.’ That’s how I started writing. Somehow it turned into poetry. I couldn’t stop writing.”

As Medrano wrote more and shared her work with people, she found they were very affected by her work and encouraged her to release her poems to a larger audience.

“I didn’t think that I was...