We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Giovanny Acero. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Giovanny below.

Giovanny, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

I remember falling in love with poetry and literature in the second half of my high school years. Until then, I had been a sort misguided misfit, letting myself be guided by others but still craving to be understood for who I was; I finally found that when I took the chance of reading, albeit not the ideal choice for someone wanting to fit in.

But once I started, I could not stop, fulfilled by the array of characters and ways of life that I felt deeply resonant with.

Soon, I decided that I wanted to be a teacher teaching English, enrolling in college and nearing my bachelors before I felt discouraged by the education system; struggling with my disheartened state until I was one day illuminated with the idea that I knew enough to write my own books and use a substantial portion of the profits to maybe help schools, hopefully sell enough books to make a difference, remembering myself, that young boy who benefitted so much from a good book, setting me in the right direction.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

While in college, I read lots of literature, gaining perspectives from anything from greek history to slave narratives to political exile and more. My admiration for writing and the desire to be one who could one day add to the mass of texts with my own life and experience and point of view had always been great, tugging at me.

But it was not until a point in my life where I felt confused about my future, discouraged from my dream to be a teacher and having successfully worked retail for fifteen years but still feeling unfulfilled. It was then, that I took a shot in the dark and began writing the pieces of my first book, De La Rosa: HOW MANY MOONS, which I, a year later, published under my own trademark, STEEL FROM A ROSE, hoping to build a name that would be recognized and set the example for the importance of public education as a whole, using the mantra of BEAUTY, KNOWLEDGE, STRENGTH to make art, wisdom, and perseverance the key components to make it happen.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

With my particular art being writing, it is not by chance that I am predisposed to thinking that the best way for society to support artist is to communicate. When we see something we like, we need to share that with others and talk about it, spread it, be sure to tell the artists themselves how great they are and to continue doing what they are doing.

Mostly, it is important to praise in a lateral sense. So often, we tend to look up at already established artists, becoming blind to the talents in our neighbors.

I feel like unfortunately industries are very successful at setting the trends at convincing us what we should like, but there are so many great talents hidden right next to us, who can show us things we could never have imagined. There are artist everywhere, not just on the tv screens and the tabloids.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I just wish I had recognized my own abilities earlier, known that I have the power to start my own business: write, edit, publish, and cement the quality of my own work. You can only succeed or fail to the degree that you allow yourself. If you have a vision, you can keep chiseling at the world before you until you are satisfied.

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