Sarah Joy Thompson is a Filipina-American poet and the author of The Everyday, the Mundane, and the Brave (Finishing Line Press, 2019), Driving into Black Mountains (FlowerSong Press, 2020), and An Uprooted Orchid (FlowerSong Press, 2024). She co-edited Boundless 2021, the official anthology of the RGV International Poetry Festival.In her recent work, Sarah Joy explores the gray area of uncertainty, loss, illness, and embodying change. Her confessional poetry style serves as an essential form of therapy, wherein tough journeys turn her attention inward. By leaning into the healing process the body can find true rest and self-appreciation.