"I cannot find hope often, so I will write it into being. I will deliver my own hope - not in gift-wrapped, pretty-perfect packages. Instead, I will scratch and bleed and claw hope into existence. It will be mine and mine own. I want Hopeful ugly. I want Hopeful before the hope comes through. Let the Hopefulness exist before the word hope is even conceived. Let it breathe and bleed and paint the air."
Ugly Happy is the debut collection of 27 pieces poetry and prose written by KC Cramm, embracing topics of growing up, identity, growth, hope, faith, and healing.