How does your trauma contribute to who you are as a person?
Everyone says you are not what happened to you, but what am I then?
Everyone says you are not alone, so why am I rotting in my solitude?
In a series of poems, this book brings you along the journey of experiencing trauma and relearning to live afterwards. Through the hardships of grieving someone you will never be again, nightmares without ends and the loss of your sense of self, each chapter approaches different stages of healing.
Just as it is in reality, what starts in devastation and destruction might turn into the ground you learn to flourish on.

Cornelia Wagner, born and raised in Germany, has always been drawn to literature.

Already in primary school, the girl had a deep fascination with reading and writing stories, using them to escape her reality. She wrote her first published story in fourth grade for the contest Schreibtalente.
During all of her teenage years, Wagner took every chance she had at creative writing, whether it was an academic essay or the first chapter of a novel that would never be finished.
Somewhere along the way, a new interest emerged: poetry.
She found herself appreciating the ability of a poem to touch souls and tear up eyes with only a minimal number of words and quickly felt comfortable expressing herself within the verses.
The work The Way I Am is the essence of that; true, utmost authenticity not only to herself but also to the world.