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...

Emotions of a Survivors Heart Marie Waldrep, a survivor of domestic-sexual abuse expresses her most inner thoughts and feelings through poetry of the trauma she endured as a child, teen and adult for years that she kept bottled up and hid. Her emotions run deep inside her soul.