Alesa Bernat resides with her husband and three sons on their retired family farm. She is a speech-language pathologist working in a rural public school. Alesa was diagnosed with Hypomania – Bipolar Type II in 2015. This shaped much of the writing that can be found in her debut collection. She believes in a future with universal access to mental health programs in all communities. Her collection explores themes of family, mental health, spirituality, and the beauty in small things. She wrote her first poems in 2000 and continues to explore her creativity through writing and singing. She hopes to publish more poems and stories to give a voice to the things families can't always say.