How do you survive the seemingly unsurvivable emotional and mental hauntings? You channel them into your notebook or into your word processor. That’s exactly how the first-time mother Daria S. Hsu’s first published cycle of poems, The Haunted House, was created. The journey to healing is by no means a straightforward process for her; in fact, it is fraught with deeply buried pain, shame, and self-doubt. But, for Daria, embarking on this journey was the only way to make her life worth living again.