This Business of Becoming Mad’s collection of poetry follows a 25 year span of madness from first hospitalization to living as a mad woman in society and through relationships, to welcoming the world into madness during the Covid-19 pandemic. This volume follows previous books by K. Rose Quayle on the subject of lived experience with mental illness including Look Left, Walk Green: a shocking tale of losing the past and choosing to gain the future, The Book of Moon, and Skittle’s Little Book of Kitten Wisdom.