Daydreamer is a poetry collection that explores the act of daydreaming through the poet’s lived experience with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), particularly the forms and symptoms most often reported by girls and women, including maladaptive daydreaming. Spanning childhood through middle age, the poems do not attempt to organize or correct the mind’s clutter. Instead, they seek to create a poetics of the writer’s experience with an associative, dreamy, and nonlinear brain The collection leans into repetition, fixation, formal experimentation, and empathy as poetic strategies that mirror the ADHD experience. While the poet does not presume to speak for every woman with the disorder, she draws on both personal history and research on women’s experiences with ADHD. Daydreamer aims to resist disciplining the wandering mind and instead celebrates it. The book also participates in a lineage of women’s writing that foregrounds interiority, fear, obsession, memory, and self-making.