Swimming Lessons delivers deeply felt personal stories. “There’s a lot of me in there and my experiences with love and depression and anxiety,” she says. In her poetry, Reinhart openly negotiates the tension between the public and the private as her life continues to rapidly and radically change, something that became particularly heightened during her semi-permeable offscreen relationship with her Riverdale co-star Cole Sprouse.

“It seems almost contradictory to be like, ‘Yeah, I like to keep my private life private and then publish a book of poems about love,’” she says and laughs. “But to be honest, the poems are a portrayal of feelings. It’s not my story, it’s not an autobiography that someone’s going to read and be like, ‘Oh, this is something that happened to her!’ Yes there’s a lot of that in there, a lot of my personal experiences, but some of it is fictional storytelling that was inspired by a feeling. I think someone who’s reading the book could think, ‘Ooh, I’m going to get juicy details about her love life,’ but that’s just not what happens.” She adds, “It gives you a glimpse of how deeply I have felt love and I have felt loss but it doesn’t tell you anything about a relationship that I’ve had.”