Allison Sulouff was in middle school when her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
The Clarendon Hills resident couldn’t find a comfortable way to handle that news, so she started writing poetry.
“I’m not good about talking about my feelings,” said Sulouff, who graduated last spring from Hinsdale Central and now is a freshman at Illinois State University. “Writing was a way for me to express how I felt; it helped me to get some of my feelings out.”
Sulouff continued to write, and she wrote a very personal poem during her junior year at Hinsdale...