Every Square Inch

Every Square Inch is a memoir about endurance, craft, and the long road to building a life inside one of the most gatekept worlds there is: tattooing. Beginning in a childhood marked by instability, emotional intensity, and a fierce need for escape, the book traces how creativity became both refuge and identity for its narrator long before she ever found a real route into the trade. Drawn to tattoos as a form of expression, control, and relief, she spends years circling the dream thr…