Aleda Estlin writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature and an MA in Cultural Studies. Her interests tap into the fields of literature, visual culture, fashion, psychology, and spirituality.
Through her writing, she wishes to explore the panoramics of “self” and its social avatars in an ever-changing outer reality.
Her academic research is centered on the formation and transformation of identity through mechanisms of sacralization in the context of fashion and art, as well as on the fluctuations of the contemporary body.
Her personal writing is a complementary approach to these interests. She focuses on the topics of interconnectivity, beauty, sacredness and nature, but also delves into self-transformation, love and its counters, death, intimacy, power, and memory.
Currently, she’s experimenting with video poems.

“My main interest is perception and how we translate the mystification of the observable reality into our experience. That is why my writing is mostly reflexive, questioning or, at times, even equivocal.
I observe and record the tension between the inner and the outer world, and how this transition is negotiated through the mind, but also through the body.
I’m curious about the works of memory and how we engage with the world based on our remembrance of the past and our pre-established sense of self.
I’m also a supporter of writing as a tool for healing. The collection of poems I’m working on now deals with just that, retracing the steps of transformation happening in an individual that has been dealing with a form of trauma, but is nevertheless able to circle back to wholeness, and love.”