Marilyn Bousquin is the founder of Writing Women’s Lives Memoir Academy, where she helps writers get their story out of their heart and onto the page. She believes shared stories heal lives, and that reclaiming one’s voice is an act of consciousness that promotes change. Her work appears in Sweet, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, Superstition Review, Pithead Chapel, The Rumpus, Under the Gum Tree, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Her memoir-in-progress To Have a Voice: A Midlife Reckoning with Female Sexual Shame and Silence explores the effects of female sexual shame on sense of self and voice, and draws a correlation between cultural consciousness and individual consciousness. Visit her at writingwomenslives.com and on Facebook.
