This Much I Know: Sasha Terfous

I never intended to be a poet. I just wanted to find a way of expressing myself. I grew up in New Ross in Waterford feeling like an outsider. There was an otherness about me - my sexuality, being mixed race - and I was geeky, into Lord of the Rings, stuff like that, and I was an emo head as well. 

I tried to fit in by getting into camogie and football and badminton. But it never worked. So I adopted that otherness. I guess I didn’t do myself any favours.