On just three days before Christmas in 1963 was born a girl to the world. Her parents named her Tascha Lee and she had bright red hair and blue eyes. Tascha Lee was also born with a myriad of possibilities. She could have done anything, been anybody. A new life is always full of hope , dreams, and expectations. When she reached school age she so looked forward to going to school with her older brother and sister. She wanted an education and looked forward to learning so much. However, once she was enrolled in the same school her older siblings were going to her dreams of education were ruined by being tormented by cruel bullies, a careless school and struggles with learning. Eventually the school threw her out in answer to the bullies and her struggles, and she would remain out of school for two years until her parents could find an appropriate school for her. While she was waiting for the right school her desire for an education just intensified becoming embeded in her value system for years. Finally, when her parents found a school for her she was elated and relieved all at once and quite determined to make the best of the education she was about to receive. But, the other students of the school of the special class she was placed in were very different from her in some basic ways as was the teacher entrusted with her early education and helping her overcome her struggles and a dark shadow would loom over her during her enrollment at this school. The only light to make its way to her during this time was the discovery that she could write and write well. This would be the first inkling she had that she could do anything at all and her pen would gracefully touch the paper she was writting on like the butterfly she depicted in her very first poem that would metamorphasize into a myriad of blues. Her passion and gift of writing would follow her throughout the years as she took creative writing classes in junior and senior high school and, later she would discover drama, mythology and the plays and sonnetts of William Shakespeare which she continues to pursue today. Tascha Dresser's poetry has since been published in magazines such as Poetic Monthly and Justify my Life as well as in anthologies published by The National Library of Poetry. She has contributed articles to small news papers In Mississippi and news letters for adults with learning disabilities such as The Rebus Institute Report. She also writes and distributes her own news letter, Icarus' Voice, and has published two books, one a large collection of her poetry, Coming Out of the Closet and Breaking the Chains: Poetic Views from the other side of a special education classroom, a collection that has received high praise from Rebecca Johnson of the RebeccaReview.com( See amazon.com ) and her more recent book a series of essays, demanding the respect, tolerance and compassion for all of Gods children regardless of ability or station in life and the chance to discover and fulfill their purpose as well as her own accounts of her struggles and experiences in her early life;Within These Pages.Ms Dresser lives in a mythical city In Oregon called Bend that is ever expanding and growing just as she is.

Ms Dresser has won several certificates from such places as The National Library of Poetry,World of Poetry and American Poetry Association. She was also named a Golden Poet by the World of Poetry in the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen ninties three times as well as a poet of merit and an editors choice.