I felt invisible growing up as a sensitive child, and while I had a voice, nobody listened. Well into my twenties, an abusive partner harnessed my ability to express myself. When I finally left him in my thirties, I wanted to shout from the rooftops all I'd learned, lost, and how I'd healed myself.

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My writing keeps my voice alive.

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My writing is nonfiction. The Sensitive One (She Writes Press) is a memoir of redemption-a true story of a woman who escaped harrowing circumstances and started anew-but it's also a story of how our legacy lives within us and how healing from the adverse effects of childhood can genuinely take a lifetime.

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My philosophy, summed up in the words of Shakespeare, is: "This above all: to thine own self be true." My writing reflects a very genuine wish to make a difference to my readers by sharing personal experiences and views while feeling at one with them.

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My writing takes the form of narratives, poetry, and essays. It is actually a book about overcoming adversity. It is with courage learned in overcoming a traumatic past that I venture forth to write from my heart with truth and compassion, stirring my readers to the things that matter to me: the strength of the human spirit, women's rights, trauma, healing, love, loss, and the power of self-expression.

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Susan Frances Morris is an award-winning memoirist with her work, The Sensitive One published by She Writes Press in August 2021. Foreword Review awarded The Sensitive One the 2021 Gold Winner for autobiography and memoir. It's an inspirational story of redemption: a woman who escapes harrowing circumstances and starts anew, but also a story of how our legacy lives within us, and how healing from the adverse effects of childhood can genuinely take a lifetime.