The theme and title chosen were recycled from the collection of personal letters and short stories I wrote and never published my first year of college, whose theme and title were recycled from the EP I wrote and never recorded in high school. Mostly just intending to give the project a final resting place, I began piecing together and revising what semi-salvageable poems and prose pieces I had from over the years, and on a whim, I took my professor up on collaborating with creative writing students as well.

Emboldened by the incredible responses I received from the creative writing students I was put in contact with, I decided to dip into my existing pool of writer friends and ask whether they had any interest in contributing too—and I was met with an enthusiastic yes from all of them. THUS, after years of pushing this shapeless project around like mushy peas on a dinner plate, the final form of To All My Friends, To All My Family was born (with the help of my friends and family, of course).