About Wildfire

I really appreciate you checking Wildfire out, and I know you'll love it when you see how beautiful and thought-provoking the stories told here are. As you'll see, Wildfire Magazine is much more than just a magazine.

The truth is, I created Wildfire out of my own desperation. I was diagnosed in 2012 with Stage 3c HER2+ breast cancer when I was 35. I found my own lump one night while breastfeeding my daughter. It would be three long, lonely years before I met another person diagnosed on the younger side who could relate to medical menopause, to having an asymmetrical chest, to the impact of cancer on money and career, not to mention the impact on intimacy and relationships, as well as living in the aftermath of diagnosis.

Coincidentally, we signed up for the same expressive writing course and were the only two in our 30s. When we discovered we had both been diagnosed, I felt whole in a way that is hard to communicate. I knew then that I needed to find more of us and to highlight our individual experiences.

Since then, I’ve come to believe that telling our stories - or reading the stories of others in a similar situation - can be the difference between a difficult cancer experience being traumatic and a difficult cancer experience being empowering.

I learned that first-hand.

Now it’s my privilege to tell you that you’re not alone in survivorship; I'm so glad you found Wildfire.

Warmly, April

Founder, Editor-in-Chief