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Avery Toomes
Best-Selling Author, Playwright, Poet, and Assistant Editor at TRIBEZA
Author Bio
Avery Toomes writes the stories others are afraid to tell. This Texas-based poet and playwright transforms personal experience into powerful art that amplifies women’s voices.
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Her play Your Power sold out its New York City debut in 2023 and ran in 2025 in Philadelphia, confronting violence against women through an unflinching lens. The production dismantled silence and sparked critical discourse around the realities of women’s lives.
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A Pratt Institute graduate, Toomes works across writing, painting, and multimedia to create art that cuts deep and heals clean. She serves as the Assistant Editor at Tribeza Magazine.
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Her work has appeared in Khrome Magazine, The Prattler, ORO Art, Austin Woman Magazine, and her Substack. As a member of Zonta Club of Austin, she believes storytelling creates pathways to creating a better world.
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Listen Below:
The Body's Last Word with Avery Toomes
What do you do when your body is screaming for help, but no one seems to hear you?
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In this episode of Her Best Chapter, Michelle sits down with Avery Toomes, a poet, playwright of Your Power, best-selling author in Empathy Impact and assistant editor at TRIBEZA.
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Avery talks openly about what inspired her chapter in Empathy Impact: the years she spent in severe pain, the fear of not knowing what was happening inside her body, and the way she was constantly brushed off by doctors and her community.
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Everything changed the day she learned the truth. Avery was diagnosed with a rare disease called acromegaly, caused by a benign tumor on her pituitary gland secreting growth hormone. That diagnosis explained the years of pain, the physical changes she saw in the mirror, and the sense of losing herself long before she knew why.
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Avery shares what it felt like to finally be believed, her journey of diagnosis to brain surgery, her writing process as she wrote her chapter, and why she now leads with empathy in a world that often rushes to judge.
