‘There was no longer a need to pretend, rather a need to become.’

‘You will love your body, hate your body, wish those freckles would just go away.’

‘Note to self: It’s okay to just be, you know.’

‘…if the trees can recover from the flames that once ravaged them, there’s hope yet for me too.’

‘I know that although there are many parts of me that are lost, this part is solid.’

Nimble fingers and entwined bodies, growth spurts and the path to identity. Metamorphosis is the profound change in form, from one stage to the next, during an organism’s lifespan. In this anthology, eighteen emerging creatives trace their stories of what it means to encounter the transformations that make up our lived experience.