Septa Mellina
I start my mornings in the kitchen, with a cup of coffee, then to my desk later in the day: writing, embroidering, reading books, or listening to the quietness. I started writing at 8 years old, mostly in Indonesian, my native language. Then, when I was 15 years old, my short stories were published by Horison, a respectable Indonesian literature magazine. I occasionally joined spoken word poetry in Jakarta, Indonesia. I enjoy loud, expressive poetry performance as much as I love sitting by our apartment window in solitude. I still believe that writing is therapy.