Anna Bozena Bowen an award winning author, is also a poet, writer, nurse and SoulCollage(R) Facilitator. She was the first American-born child to her Polish immigrant parents and was raised in a Polish community in Holyoke MA. Bowen's holistic approach to life and connection to spirit is evidenced in HATTIE, her debut award winning novel. "HATTIE is a testament to the multidimensional aspects of our human and spiritual lives; it is about the in-between and beyond, it is about being human, it is about soul and spirit and so much more," says Bowen.Her twenty-five years in nursing, mostly in the critical-care and mental-health areas, her personal healing journey, and Bowen's work with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and complex trauma "privileged me to hear many stories. I witnessed the resilience of spirit and the freeing of one's soul that occurs with finding one's voice," she says. Bowen was a contributing author to Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships (2006). She is a member of the International Women's' Writing Guild (IWWG) and the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA). She finds creative expressive processes such as journaling and collaging valuable tools for exploring one's life journey.