A Childhood Tragedy Under A Mother's Watch

Catherine A Mellen

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BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Mellen is an American poet, author and blogger.  Born in 1969 Lowell Massachusetts.  She wrote her first poem at age fourteen and quickly adapted her love for words.  Shamed by the childhood she lived, she became a cook and caterer for nearly three decades.  An auto accident at age forty-five, left her disabled and a victim to horrifying repressed memories.  In 2018 she started a blog where she shattered her silence on childhood trauma, family secrets and unsolved murders in her hometown.

Her poetry has been published in numerous poetry journals and she is the author of Christmas in Poetry Land: A delightful collection of holiday poetry. Survivor's Mind: The poetry behind her lifetime of living in shame, secrets and silence along with the courage, strength and survival she wrote with each poem. A Childhood Tragedy Under A Mother's Watch/Part One 1975-1982 Lowell Massachusett and A Life Given To Me/Part Two 1982-2019 Lowell Massachusetts. The horrifying true story of one girl's desperation to escape abuse and her forty-four year journey from victim, to statistic, to survivor. Follow her on the Amazon app for updates of new releases.