Ashley Gannon is the author of Poems From a Borderline Heart. She lives with Borderline Personality Disorder, along with depression, anxiety, and PTSD, and her writing is shaped by a long journey through therapy, psychiatry, inpatient hospitalizations, and years of being misunderstood.

Ashley began writing poetry as a way to cope with trauma and pain, and to survive moments she never thought she would outlive. She has navigated self-harm recovery and an eating disorder since early adolescence, and she knows what it means to fight for your life in quiet ways people don’t always see.

In 2022, she received a diagnosis that helped her story finally make sense, and she began building a life rooted in self-worth, boundaries, and healing. Today, she writes for anyone learning to stay: for the younger self who needed proof, and for the present self who’s still trying.