“How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma,” Grace Spulak’s Essay in Literary Hub

But I struggled to find a way to write into what I’d experienced. It felt both opaque and reductive. What could I write about violence and sexual violence that would explain the short catch of my breath or my wilted neurons? That would explain the way my life had been derailed, bent around this thing?

Thank you to Literary Hub for publishing this incredible essay, “How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma” by Grace Spulak, reflecting on writing through and after trauma.

Read the full essay here.