Emotional health is complex. Every thought and feeling is influenced and mixed with all others, creating combinations of fear, anxiety, joy, depression, anger, grief, exhilaration, happiness, sadness, and more. Some of us process these intricacies through writing. These stories are born from lived experience and imagination, representing some of the aspects of our multifaceted inner lives. Shadows of the Mind is an anthology of short stories and poems centered on mental and emotional health, written by an international coalition of authors including H. C. Kilgour, David F. Balog, Anisha Singh, Joyce Bou Charaa, Diya Lekshmi P. N., Meredith Lindsey, Laura Lukasavage, Any Pascual, Cheshta Sharma.