Olivia Moran, Staff Writer
Olivia Moran was born in Arizona and raised in a tight-knit family. The best word she could use to describe her childhood would be fulfilling and fun. As a child, she had many different hobbies, such as drawing, writing, and other such things. Writing and storytelling became Olivia's safe place when she struggled in an uptight middle school. While she had friends, she struggled to connect to other people due to insecurity.
This didn’t change as she got older and went into high school. She struggled to find things she was interested in until she reconnected with her love of writing. Writing once again became her place to process all of her emotions and to feel understood. Olivia’s favorite part of writing was how it brought people together, through her stories she was able to make more friends that had the same interests as her. Olivia's favorite pastime was writing stories and writing about the things she had learned. She had always been very opinionated but writing allowed her to express those opinions in a healthy way.
Olivia’s love of writing became even more intense when she discovered Verrado had a journalism class. She had always entertained the idea of taking her writing more seriously but never felt like she had the opportunity to do so. Now as a junior in high school she plans to make the most of her last two years of high school by taking her writing more seriously and enjoying herself as much as she can. She plans to develop her writing skills as much as she can in these short two years.
