Meet The Author

I may be a little late to the game on this, but I realized this is a memoir! I should introduce myself and give you a glimpse of the “me” currently. Just go over some basic current information about me. My name is Bailey, and I just started my writing career in December of 2022. Technically, I was first published in junior high school, but due to discouragement and other adverse circumstances, I didn’t stick with it in the interim as I should have. Fortunately, my husband of over ten years has generally supported this transformation in my life.

I received an Associate of Science degree in Library and Information Technology from Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA, in 2009/2010. I never managed to break into the library world, so I have decided to come at things from a different approach. Put my name on a few books and get my words out there into the universe.

I have lived In the Midwest and on both coasts of the United States. I especially appreciated living in the San Francisco Bay Area, which was very accessible as a nondriver. I have to say I have been truly blessed by the natural beauty and unique climate conditions that seem to agree with me here most of the year in the Sierras. I have taken advantage of my time in Tahoe and gathered inspiration from the gorgeous landscape and the adorable animals we have poking about.

My husband Damien and I live in South Lake Tahoe with my service dog, Wisteria. We have been here for ten years, since right after we were married. Our precious piglet was born and raised here. She’s been with me her whole hoggly life. I write directly about my life here in Tahoe and about my life as a disabled person.

I am coping with an autoimmune disease and living and eating with over 15 food allergies and sensitivities, among other things. I try and take them in stride and write it out when they start to get to me. My first book is a collection of poetry on the topic of accepting myself as a person with autism. As this is an ongoing process of acceptance and learning, you will not only get to read some of those poems and see behind the scenes of writing them but continue on the journey alongside me.

I didn’t think of this being something I needed to say until I sat down to give this introduction, since up until now, it went without saying, but I am writing all of my text on my own power. While I do use a grammar checker to save your eyes, and I create introduction art using an AI program, which I pay to obtain the licenses to the images, I do not consider those images to be what you are coming here for. This is a writing newsletter with poetry, my own personal experience, and how writing therapy can benefit everyone as its focus. I will always be writing all the content here or typing it by hand. No AI program could articulate what I have to say to you from my heart.

I am currently in a period of intense inner self-work, and in the process, I have produced two self-published books, as well as a weekly serial, and a happy Medium following, and now this stack. I anticipate settling here on substack and finding my Poetry People while continuing the journey alongside you.

K.B. Silver