Ellen Bass

Ellen Bass is the editor of this book. Ellen Bass ran writing workshops for women. Often during the course of these workshops women would write about sexual abuse that took place when they were children. These stories and poems seemed to be cathartic for the writers, making Ellen Bass wonder if perhaps these women needed a larger outlet for their stories. Ellen Bass decided to publish a collection of these stories with the help of a few other writers who had attended some of these workshops with the hope that getting these stories out into the public arena she might be able to help other women tell their stories.

Ellen Bass was never sexually assaulted herself. However, when Ellen Bass was a young child she was forced to kiss a handyman working for her parents. Ellen Bass told her mother immediately and was happy with her mother's...