Death of a Wallflower: A Poetry Chapbook

And more scars appeared when we embraced."

- an excerpt from "Wallflower's Elegy", Death of a Wallflower

In her debut poetry chapbook Death of a Wallflower, Jalisa Ogundelu explores the complex process of coming of age. How do you say goodbye to your former self? Where do you go when you're completely lost? Through 30 poems, this chapbook confronts the questions we're afraid to ask ourselves.

After all, falling in love with who you are is liberating, but true love never did come easy...