Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

by Ibi Zoboi

she wouldn’t’ve heard the voices from across the galaxy.

Estelle means “star”— a bright shining light at the highest point on a pyramid, or a tree, or a solar system.

And like a star, she was born to listen to the whispers of the universe, to gather the constellations and weave them into stories.

full of maybes and tomorrows and what-ifs.