Kristiana Reed is a co-founder of Blank Paper Press and the President of the Free Verse Revolution network. She is a member of several writing collectives including Sudden Denouement and the voice behind My Screaming Twenties.

Tell us about your writing process

For a start, I wouldn’t call what I end up doing a process. I look at many of my pieces as happy accidents. I am unable to sit at my desk and write. Often times, ideas come to me during the most mundane tasks – washing the dishes, making my bed, tidying up around the house. In these moments, I find a note book or my phone and write as the tide flows. Sometimes I will have a stanza, a whole poem or simply an idea. I suppose you could call that step one. Step two is choosing one of my three writing havens to edit or write…