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Penelope Childers
Writing came to me quite accidentally. Days after I retired from my full-time career, I was asked to do some volunteer work for a nonprofit helping women coming out of jail and prison. Clients bega...view moreWriting came to me quite accidentally. Days after I retired from my full-time career, I was asked to do some volunteer work for a nonprofit helping women coming out of jail and prison. Clients began to tell me their stories. I was shocked by the things I heard. After a year, I had the opportunity to make monthly visits to the world’s largest women’s prison located in Chowchilla, California. There I heard even more. My eyes and mind were opened to realities I had never dreamed existed. Eventually, I wrote down the stories with an eye on writing a book filled with some amazing testimonies.But then I met Debra Rush, a victim of sex trafficking. Debra founded Breaking the Chains www.btcfresno.org an organization devoted to rescuing and restoring women from the bondage of sex traffickers. She needed her memoir written and asked me to write it. Her story unfolded over the next five years. In the meantime, I wrote short stories that were published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Guideposts, and Focus on the Family.For the last seven years, I have attended numerous writing conferences. In 2018, I won third place in a first-page writing contest at the West Coast Christian Writers Conference.I live in Fresno, California with my husband, Larry. We have a married daughter and two beautiful grandchildren.view less