Alexxa Collins

Alexxa Collins, poet

Alexxa Collins is from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Her passion in life is everything mental health and advocacy. She is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and has worked to view her illness as a place of power instead of a place of weakness. She chooses to write about the black, grey, and white of her illness, in order to capture every shade and every angle. Her hopes are to one day publish a poetry book of navigating her adolescence and early adulthood with BPD.

Into the Storm — Volume 7, Issue 4

In her vulnerable prose poem, Into the Storm, Alexxa Collins utilizes writing to give voice to mental illness, launching her mission to change the narrative that mental illness needs to be contained and stopped; instead, it is an ongoing and changing story that needs to be told.