Seeking Grace - Faye Snider

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Résumé :
Seeking Grace is a verse memoir narrated by the mother of a daughter in a religious cult. Based on a true experience in the '80s, each poem reveals the choices and dilemmas of parents rescuing a child caught in an outpouring of words targeted to seduce, induce and ensnare

Biographie:
Faye Snider, MSW, MFA, a retired clinical social worker and family therapist, writes true stories in narrative and verse forms. She has published professional pieces titled Holocaust Trauma and Imagery: The Systemic Transference into the Second Generation, Poetry: A Way to Bear Witness, and Rescue from a Cult: A Living Death in the Family. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the Solstice Creative Writing Program and has published personal narratives in Alimentum, Sugarmule and Boxy. Her poem, Cousin Lewie, received first prize in The Chautauqua Writing Center Poetry Contest in 2021. Find more of her poetry in Ibbetson Press, 200 New Mexico Poems, and Lily Poetry Review.