We Are All Mad Here

“The things you are most afraid to write, write about that.”
- Nayyirah Waheed

These words resonate deeply with Perushka Pillay, the author of We are all mad here, whose love of poetry and literature developed from a very young age.

As the title suggests, this anthology encompasses a range of issues and emotions which echoed in Perushka’s mind as she entered adulthood. She began her journey as a poet in 2014, inscribing her thoughts and feelings into a little journal... Soon it became a means to her self-discovery. The only way in which she was able to face all the challenges life threw at her, was through writing: Pen to paper, bleeding words into ink.