Over the years she has responded to that itch by writing about several issues that span several genres, from poetry to politics but has never felt the compulsion to publish, until faced with the social tragedy that is this story.
Verian, as she prefers to be called because it is the original spelling of her name, lives in South Carolina but is originally from Guyana, in South America. Before settling in South Carolina, she lived in New York and New Jersey and worked in several major cities where she started volunteering as a grammar, writing skills and general factotum in helping to equip basic academic skills to those in need.
It was in one of these classes that she met the Connie, the subject of Sacred Secrets: Shedding the Shackles of my Shame, and was so blown away by the horror that was her life, that she agreed to document the saga, so that Connie could have a blue print for her offspring and generations after them, NOT to follow.