Trista Mateer is a passionate mental health advocate, utilizing her large online platform (and her work) to destigmatize and springboard conversations surrounding grief, loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, etc. A multi-faceted creative force, Mateer is best known for Aphrodite Made Me Do It--a collection of art and poetry--which explores modern feminist issues through the lens of Greek mythology. Whatever she's writing about, Mateer invites readers into a world where vulnerability is celebrated.

"Through verse that sings war songs as well as moon songs, the Artemis in these pages challenges and encourages. She lifts you out of despair and into fierceness. There are poems in here that will wound you and poems that will heal you, with an elegance that glows through every word." -- Nikita Gill, author of Great Goddesses

"Artemis Made Me Do It is a face wetting collection that I wish I could read for the first time again. It's a reminder that you can't keep femininity in a cage, to hug the past versions of yourself, and to have hope for the pages you've yet to write." -- Michaela Angemeer, Author of You'll Come Back to Yourself

Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing

Pub date: 2022-09-06

Length: 176 pages