Diem Okoye

Diem Okoye is a writer and teacher. She lives with two German Shepherds and two neurotic cats. She moonlights as a copyeditor and loves spending time with her family and friends. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Gay & Lesbian Review, Reckoning, and elsewhere.

Poetry

“The art of becoming”

At six, I wanted to be a bird.At twelve, invisible.At twenty, someone else—anyone else. Now, finally,I’m learning the slow alchemyof inhabiting this skin,this particular collectionof scars and stories.How strange that it takeshalf a lifetime to arriveat your own door,to knock and be answeredby the person you’ve beenbecoming all along.Some metamorphoseshappen