Caitlin Shelor

Panacea Caitlin Shelor

Panacea is defined as a solution or curative to life's difficulties and diseases; coping; and medicine. Caitlin Shelor's Panacea is a collection of essays which detail many wounds festering in her life and the world today as a whole. With her heartbreakingly vulnerable voice, Shelor poignantly captures and conveys the journey from childhood innocence to an accute awareness of the dark undercurrents all around, including body image, mental health, grief, racism, sexism, and sexuality, and in doing so, writing has become her panacea.