A Voice That Has Spoken from Within

Marie Waldrep began writing from her heart at the early age of 11. Due to her personal experience with incest and childhood sexual assault, rape and sexual and domestic violence she found writing poems helped to ease the pain and facilitate her healing and recovery process. As such, she felt compelled to write this book of poems, A Voice that has Spoken from Within. Marie was awarded Editor's Choice Award in January 2004 for outstanding achievement in poetry by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Still I Cry. She has created a website called The Mighty Phoenix with information to help promote awareness and healing of all sexual abuse. Marie is dedicated in making a difference by helping others who have walked a similar path as she has.