When you know a tale ends in tragedy, and still choose to embark upon the journey… that is what love is, and that is what life is. This is what Hadestown teaches us, through a layered narrative, two great love stories, and powerful music.

We caught up with Nikita Gill, author of Wild Embers and Great Goddesses, about life as a poet, the worth of rejection and her thoughts on the Insta-poetry phenomenon.