A curated collection of prose taken directly from Candice D'Meza's private diaries, Birth of an Alchemist is a raw, unfiltered, unedited look into the dark and light of one woman's life. In it, the author explores her personal experiences with growth, depression, heartbreak, suicide, and hope. Each entry is dated, providing a personal time-stamp showing how growth is not linear or neat, but messy and cyclical. If alchemy is the magical transformation of one element into another, clearly D'Meza is an alchemist who has transformed her personal pain into the readable work of art that is Birth of an Alchemist.