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Gwendolyn L Olson

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Gwendolyn Leighton Olson writes like she’s bleeding ink and burying flowers in the margins. Born and raised under Florida’s sun-drenched skies, she carries the grit of the backroads and the ache of moonlit memories in everything she creates. Her debut poetry collection, Where the Stars Forgot to Shine, is a love letter to the broken, the wild-hearted, and the ones still learning how to bloom in the dark.

A criminal justice student with the soul of a storm and the heart of a healer, Gwendolyn writes from lived experience—trauma, healing, growth, and grit. Her words are stitched with Southern soil, late-night confessions, and the kind of hope you don’t find in daylight. When she’s not crafting poems, she’s building her dream truck, hunting tru ...more

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So, this is obviously my first blog post- the incipient stage of what could be something that could grow into so much more. Thats what's beautiful about beginnings- the fact that you never know where they could lead, how far they could go...

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