Anna C. Benyo is a writer and public health professional based in Skillman, New Jersey. Her work explores intergenerational memory, motherhood, and healing—how personal and ancestral stories intertwine to shape identity and resilience. She has spent much of her career advancing maternal health policy while writing essays and poems that trace the quiet inheritance of trauma, recovery, and reclamation. “Fireworks” is part of a larger hybrid memoir-in-progress about breaking cycles and reclaiming freedom.