TRUE STORY. Bella survived an abusive powerbroker father with organized crime ties, a drug-addicted mother and a physically/sexually abusive brother. Shocking & inspirational. When she couldn't cry, she tattooed a crying angel to cry for her.
BJ Appelgren has been an artist, teacher, potter, executive director of a non-profit agency, counselor, and writer of an alternative health newsletter.
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It is in writing ‘literature,’ she has re-discovered art as revelation. Originally from Chicago, she has been living in the Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia for over twenty-five years.
Accomplishments
Prize winner - WV writers 2005 Children's story, Where is Grandfather?
Prize winner - WV writers 2006
Long non-fiction, The Transparent Feather
Now published. See website
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