Our Featured Author & Artist
Astr Booker
Author of Butterflies & Baby Names
I was born in 2004, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been someone who needed to create. Writing and drawing have always been the places I go when my heart is too full or the world gets too loud. Words have a way of holding things that are hard to carry alone.
I’m part of a loving throuple, and the life we’ve built together means everything to me. Love shows up in all forms is something I believe in deeply.
Because of a severe panic disorder, working traditional jobs hasn’t been possible for me. Instead, I’ve built a life being self-employed, creating and writing on my own terms. What started as a coping mechanism slowly became a calling.
My journey toward motherhood hasn’t been easy. I’ve experienced three miscarriages, my first being twins. Those losses changed me in ways I’m still learning to understand, and they are a big part of why I wrote this book. Writing became a place where grief could breathe, and where hope could still exist beside it.
When I’m not writing, I’m usually drawing, dreaming up new ideas, or watching for butterflies. To me, they are small reminders that love has a strange and beautiful way of finding its way back to us.
— Astr
