Dia Calhoun: On Writing “The Phoenix Dance”
Saturday, December 8th, 2007Filed under: Themes, The UpDown Report

Dia Calhoun: On Writing The Phoenix Dance
“I wanted to show her struggles with the illness: the difficulty getting properly diagnosed; the difficulty getting the proper medicine; and the difficulty of staying on the medicine due to side effects—all things that teens with bipolar disorder experience today.”




