Women in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Holly Rae Garcia
What inspired you to start writing? I’ve been a reader for as long as I can remember. During one particular book club meeting, I found myself criticizing a book and then saying, “But they wrote a book and I didn’t, so what do I know?”. So, in 2019, I wrote a book to see if I could. Readers don’t always comprehend how hard it is to actually write a book. And it is hard. I can almost hear the lifelong authors laughing at me for not realizing this. But it’s also immensely gratifying and addicting. I was hooked.…
This month on Holistic Horrors we take a brief look at the role of poetry in promoting well-being and connectiveness. Numerous studies suggest that this is the case. For example, in their 2018 study examining the value of writing poetry as a “means to help people living with chronic pain to explore and express their narratives in their own unique way”, researchers Hovey, Khayat, and Feig concluded that “to write cathartic poetry means bringing into presence our inner reflective thinking, emotions, and self-empathy to help ourselves and others who suffer alongside us.”