Aden McCracken was born and raised in the small and quaint town of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. Through adolescence and early adulthood, he has always valued the power of voice as a means to invoke awareness and change. Writing has always been a means for Aden to utilize his voice; and in his first poetry collection The castle is on fire, he brings his own understanding of his battles with childhood trauma, poverty, mental illness, and addiction to each page.
