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My first love was poetry, and I've always connected with women poets with complex histories like Anne Sexton. The title for This Violent Heart was inspired by her poem "The Break," which includes a line with the phrase "violent heart." Those words always struck me, and they felt so appropriate for my character Devon Mayes in how she views her bisexuality and her complicated feelings for her best friend Summer. She truly sees her heart as violent in the way it pulls her in opposing directions.
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