Pitt professor writercruz describes the purpose of writing her first novel as learning how to merge her artistic ambitions with her past. “There’s all these different things that we do in our lives where we cross a border of a rule or a place … and then being forced to return, and sort of saying, ‘No, I am an artist and I can be in this space. I can be both." (Link in bio) #silhouettes2020 Story by paige.lawler photos by romitaphotography