Aleah Dye

Aleah Dye (she/her) primarily writes poetry, tending towards topics of morbidity, love, social justice, and philosophy. She is dreadfully afraid of imperfection and spiders, in no particular order. She has a one-eyed cat named Ivy and a one-track-minded (food!) cat named Rosebud. Aleah hopes to make hearts grow three sizes with her words. She is a 2020 Sundress Publications Best of the Net nominee and the graphic designer for perhappened. Follow her @bearsbeetspoet on Twitter.

Early Life
She grew up in Calhoun County, West Virginia.

Goals
"' My number one goal is to make people feel seen and heard. I want my writing to let readers know they are not alone in their thoughts, feelings, or struggles. I want to nurture the seed of empathy in this world.  Finally, I want to advance social justice in any way possible via my writing.'"

Inspirations
"'Most often, my own feelings and mental health inspire me to write. I feel overwhelmed or overjoyed and simply have to get that from my brain to the page. It is a release. Another source of inspiration for me is my boyfriend; the way he loves me deserves to be memorialized in writing.'"

Publications
If I Just Look Hard Enough

Self-Published Book, July 2019

“If I Just Look Hard Enough is a book of poetry that will stick with you. Aleah Dye captures the constant internal dialogue that we all have, veering from worries about the state of the world to the state of oneself. This collection is deeply personal while still remaining universal, allowing you to find yourself between the lines. If I Just Look Hard Enough will force you to confront emotions that perhaps have not been touched in years; don't be afraid to look.”

Serotonin

Online (Mental Health-Based) Literary Magazine, August 2020

Published my poem White Walls on their site.

Dust Poetry Magazine

Online Literary Magazine, January 2021

Published my poem My Boyfriend Says He Has a Theory About Atoms, But He Won’t Write the Poem in their Glimmer issue.

Re-Side

Online Quarterly Zine, November 2020

Published my personal essay How to Mourn with Two Left Feet  in their dream-themed Issue 7.

perhappened mag

Online Literary Magazine, February 2021

Published my poem Red-Faced in their LOVERS issue.

Dreich

Print Poetry Magazine, November 2020

Published my poems Happy Pill, In Whispers, and How’s This for Romanticization? in their December issue.

Marías at Sampaguitas

Online Literary Magazine, October 2020

Published my three prose poems (which are a set). They are Stream of Consciousness 1, Stream of Consciousness 2, and Stream of Consciousness 3.

Rejection Letters

Online Literary Magazine, June 2020

Published a pair of my poems, Human Term(s) and Human Condition(s), on their website.

Malarkey Books

Online Literary Publisher, April 2020

Published my poem All these things are ifs: on their website.

Kissing Dynamite

Online Literary Magazine, May 2020

Published my poem Singing in their special feature zine Serenity.