Leanne O'Sullivan won most of Ireland's main poetry competitions and had poems published in many of the magazines as a young adult. Waiting for My Clothes traces a deeply personal journey, from the traumas of eating disorders and low self-esteem to the saving powers of love and positive awareness. Leanne O'Sullivan began writing poetry when she was 12, and began these poems not thinking they would ever form part of a book, but `writing down the reasons I should live for' and then `becoming addicted to looking at things to find the beauty in them.' ""What is surprising is her candor and grace. She does not, like other young poets, try to overwhelm her audience with syntactic or compositional fireworks, or to put on a mask that does not fit her.""-World Literature Today