The Writer: Can you tell me a little bit about how you got started as a writer?
Catalleya Storm: I started writing when my mother would give me and my siblings a notebook and pen during religious meetings. Her thinking was that we would write what we learned. I would scribble and then write gibberish until I was around 10 years old. Back then, we didn’t know I had a learning disability. I didn’t know until I was formally diagnosed in college. Still, I would write to my heart’s content. I could tell you the stories I wrote through the random letters and lines on the page. If you handed me one of my writings, I would tell you the same story that I did when I first wrote that piece of paper. I personally think I created my own form of writing to make up for not really understanding how written English worked. After I began to get better at English, I started working on my first novel at 12 years old. I held on to those pages until I moved to Columbus in 2018, and something happened to them.
