Seeking Grace

by Faye Snider, Eileen Cleary (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781957755274
Publisher:	Lily Poetry Review
Publication date:	12/01/2023
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

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.

Eileen Cleary is the author of 'Child Ward of the Commonwealth' (2019, Main Street Rag), '2 a.m. with Keats' ( 2021, Nixes Mate Books) and 'Wild Pack of the Living' (2024, Nixes Mate)