Lacey Roop

About Lacey

• Raised in Tupelo, Mississippi and is the first of four living generations to leave Mississippi.
• Being gay, she felt disconnected in her hometown, where gayness was made invisible.
• Headed toward Seattle, the farthest she could get from home by car; stopped in Austin, never left.
• Didn't start writing until Austin: "I didn't know I even had the capacity to do what I do now."
• Says: "I was always a writer at heart, but I was never in an environment where that was encouraged."
• Though some of her poems come from a dark place, they bloom into something beautiful.
• Says: Just like a tomato plant won't grow in the desert, people thrive in different environments.
• The beauty of life, she says, is the people you see, the stories you tell, and how they affect us.