Michelle Augello-Page

""A portrait of the artist as a young woman ..."" The poems in ""Baring the Elements"" were written when the author was in her early 20s, discovering and exploring her world. This collection of raw, passionate, and exploratory poems are that of a young woman in the turbulent process of growth and transition, finding her self and her voice in poetry.

The poems in this collection comprise an intimate, heart-breaking, and joyful exploration into the world of women, mothers and daughters. Written between 1998-2002, these poems chronicle part of the author's journey through love, loss, and transformation. "My Mother's Daughter" is rooted in the bonds that both break us and give us strength.

Persephone's Affliction is a collective arc of poems and illustrations, a journey into the dark landscape of the heart, illuminated and inspired by mythology, psychology, the Tarot, and the life/death/life cycle of love relationships.

Escape into nine dark and erotic stories which explore sex and transformation written in dreams across the body, etched in the language of skin. Each story is interwoven with magic, music and art, as lost and damaged characters navigate their broken worlds, searching for wholeness and connection. Many of the stories are sexually explicit, engaging the reader in aspects of kink, fetish, and BDSM. Some stories represent sexual trauma, abuse, negligence and cruelty, while other stories seek to express the esoteric and transcendent power of sex. Into The Woods is a unique and beautifully crafted collection of stories rooted in the female, immersed in the physical and the spiritual, and steeped in the rich archetypal landscape of fairy tales and mythology.