The Girl Who Ate Rocks is a fairy tale about grief. Started in 2022 it is an ongoing creative projects with hopes of it making its way into a performance piece.

This is its messy first beginnings.

I am indebted to fairy tales and the life long ways they have helped me see the world in new ways as well as reaching me in the loneliness of spaces, when there were no stories that seemed to fit what I was feeling.

These creatives and authors are the voices I carried with me most prominently in this project.

J.S. Park's book, As Long as You Need, a book on grief. His idea of being a grief catcher comes up in the last Chapter and concepts of sitting with the grief that doesn't leave.

Resmaa Menakam's book My Grandmother's Hands, helped me think of the space we can leave for those after us through the work we do to heal.

Deerskin by Robin McKinley will always live with me as one of my favorite fairy tales, a story that early on in my life helped me see that love can find us even in our deepest of pain.

The titles and some of the ending phrases are from fairy tales around the world. Reminders to me of our shared humanity and the power of stories.