Imposter syndrome is the experience of feeling like a phony. You feel as though at any moment you are going to be found out as a fraud — like you don’t belong where you are. You only got there through dumb luck. Even as I write these words, I still…

This project started with a poem, How to Become a Tree. I received a piece of paper with a prose poem in the classroom. The professor gave different poems to each of us and asked us to create anything inspired by the poems. I read this poem over and over. It was a little weird, but some sentences caught my eyes.