Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and the bestselling author of several journals, including Start Where You Are and Made Out of Stars, as well as illustrated guides such as My Friend Fear. Learn more about her work at MeeraLee.com.
Praise for Meera Lee Patel -- : Meera Lee Patel is the real deal: philosopher, poet, artist, and emotion-driven intellectual -- Heather Havrilesky * Ask Polly columnist for New York Magazine and author of How to Be a Person in the World * Meera, like all the best artists, invites us to reimagine what's possible in our own lives and in the world. -- Brad Montague * writer, director and creator of Kid President * Who would think that a book could help us heal? Meera Lee Patel did -- Asian Voice Meera Lee Patel's colorful artwork illustrates the expansiveness of our feelings and her stunning words remind us that life is a spectrum of many emotions; comfort, discomfort, acceptance, loneliness, love, enthusiasm and open-heartedness, too. And though that spectrum may not always be convenient, it undoubtedly leads us to the truest versions of ourselves. -- Cyndie Spiegel * bestselling author of Microjoys and A Year of Positive Thinking * When Patel comes out with any new book we should all be in line -- Brown Girl Magazine