““When I was thinking about How Poetry Saved My Life entering the “big literary world” I more so viewed it as sub genre or an underdog book because there are still comparatively so few books about sex work, especially from authors who once worked street, like I have. Disclosing to working street-level sex work still feels risky to me. Apart from Runaway by Evelyn Lau (published in 1989) I have yet to read a first person memoir about street work. More of these stories must be out there—perhaps I just haven’t found them yet.””
![“[This] story ...is the one I recount to remind myself that I survived and that the worth of my life can be paid back with my truth and my stories.” quote by Amber Dawn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8cd/amber-dawn-32462_life_this-story-is-the-one-i-recount-to-remin_245973.jpg)
