Dancing at the Shame Prom Sharing the Stories That Kept Us Small

It can weigh on your heart and mind, diminish your sense of self-worth, and impact the way you live in the world. But what happens when your share that secret burden? Book jacket.

Amy Ferris is an author, editor, screenwriter and playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From a Midlife Crisis is Off-Broadway-bound, and will open in March 2012. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, including He Said What, The Buddha Next Door, The Drinking Diaries, and Exit Laughing. She has written everything from young adult novels (A Greater Goode), to films (Funny Valentines and Mr. Wonderful), and she co-created and co-edited the first ever "all-women's issue" of Living Buddhism magazine. She has also been both an editor and contributing writer at the magazines Urban Refugee and Milford Magazine, and contributes regularly to iPinion Syndicate, Style Substance Soul, Vibrant Nation, and The Spirited Woman. Ferris serves on the Executive Board of Directors at Pages & Places Literary Festival in Scranton, PA, Peters Valley Arts, and the Education and Craft Center, and serves on the Advisory Board of The Women's Media Center. She is on faculty at The San Miguel de Allende Writers' Festival, where she teaches memoir writing, and is a visiting teacher at the UCLA Writers Workshop (extension). Her number one goal, desire, and dream is for ALL women to awaken to their greatness, their beauty, and their power. Hollye Dexter is a blogger and essayist, and the author of two memoirs. Her stories have been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Answered Prayers and Character Consciousness, as well as online at Fem2pt0, The Next Family, The Shape of A Mother, and BackPage magazine. She writes regularly for iPinion Syndicate and AOL Patch News. Dexter is a singer/songwriter with four albums out, and for the past decade has run workshops for teens in foster care through her award-winning nonprofit organization Art and Soul. In 2007 she was given the Agape Spirit award by Dr. Michael Beckwith (from The Secret) for her work with at-risk youth. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.