How I Lost My Name is a collection of poetry and prose written during the latter half of the 2010's - early 2020's to illicit tears from its readers. It details an agonizing and brooding non-linear narrative split into five chapters. The first chapter, "Letters" contains various letters to people who have fundamentally impacted my life. Some of them have passed away, some I have yet to confide in, or others have left by their own volition never to be heard from again. The second chapter, "Love" focuses on the aspects that come with romantic love like heartbreak, regret, loss, pain and is equated with being on fire for love. The third chapter, "Loss", speaks for itself. This chapter deals with all the things that have been lost. Money, love, people, opportunities. The next chapter, "Leftovers" focuses on the feeling of being treated as leftovers from a meal that no one wants to consume. It attacks the anxiety that comes with making your career manifest and the constant pressure that comes from being a dreamer. This chapter also details what it's like being a black person in today's society. How we feel like leftovers essentially, that exist only to be thrown away. The final chapter is an epilogue. An essay written for my own relief and the relief of whoever makes it that far. My writing isn't easy to digest. Living isn't easy. They both take time to get accustomed to. The themes explored in each chapter include love, loss, pain, mental health, anxiety, and racial injustice. Each chapter deals with a different pain. And as aforementioned, this collection is designed to illicit tears from its readers, but it is in this release that we find the similarities between us all that often get diminished. It is in How I Lost My Name that you realize you have at some point, lost yours as well.