BY JOANNA C. VALENTE

It's not really a secret that Billie Holidays is one of my favorite musicians and singers of all time. In times of happiness, sadness, stress, anxiety, romance, loneliness, I turn to Billie. Really, I turn to Billie for everything.

Here are eight lesser known songs for you to love and cherish ("lesser known" meaning not her biggest hits like "Stranger Fruit"):

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.