The Haunted House: A First-Time Mother’s Journey Through Trauma

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.