Topaz Hooper is an author, entrepreneur, and poet from Denver, Colorado. She combines her many artistic talents to create intersectional and unique works. As demonstrated in this book, she enjoys using the aesthetics of art, photography, and the beauty of poetry to make works that incite emotional and sensory reactions in her readers. In her free time, she enjoys travelling to new places, learning languages, cooking plant-based meals, and sitting in coffee shops overlooking a busy city street. 

A Life Worth Living is her second book. Be sure to read her first book, My Mind's Eye Poetry and Visual Art on Social Justice, Philosophy, and Identity. More poetic, visual, and creative works to come.

Book Summary:

A Life Worth Living: Poetry & Photography on Love, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is an interdisciplinary multilingual poetry book filled with seven years of original photographs and poems. The book explores topics like global inequality and peace, natural distasters and how love can transform (and destroy) our happiness. A Life Worth Living will stoke your imagination and deepen your understanding on how to love more freely, find liberty within, and pursue happiness in a messy, unequal world.