Jasmine Kolano

I am a 21-year old American, raised by a Singaporean mother and Polish father in the city of Monterey Park. I blog/vlog, make art, travel, and double-major in Communication Studies and Honors Humanities.

I tell my story in the way I create.

I write from a unique perspective about my faith, culture, social life, and values. I write to save myself everyday from the stress that comes with life, the confusion that tries to engulf me, and the failures that try to eat me alive. I write so that I can help others live with joy and passion. I write because I want to remember all the moments I had little God-sent epiphanies that so rocked my world. I write to impart the little bits of wisdom to those hungering for more. I write because it is was makes me happy. Maybe happy isn’t the word - I think it is joy. Writing makes me joyful because I can embed, etch, color, digest, and communicate everything I’ve ever lived, laughed, learned, dreamed, and cried about - onto a white, blank piece of paper. It is a process I’d gladly do over and over again, because even though I’ll never always get it all completely right, I’ll know that my life has been changed for the better a little more because of it, and that those who read my writing will have changed with me.