Winner of the On Your Feet Create! Birthparent Arts Grant - Chrysanthemums Under Streetlights is a memoir mainly focused on adoption trauma, homelessness, and domestic abuse that details the snowball effect that generational cycles can create. Please read with care."This book is a burning house waking you from dreams. It is crawling just under the flames but still choking on the smoke. It is the firefighters crying out to you to get to the window, only to find out that it has been barred over. It is dragging your sobbing body to the door, burning your hands at the knob, and rolling down the stairs to discover that the fire started on the floor below you, and is now raging. This is a generational, cyclical trauma trickling through these pages." —Emily Perkovich