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    Bi-the-Way
    Bi-the-Way
    Bi-the-Way
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    Bi-the-Way

    By Missi McLaren

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    Bi-the-Way is the second collection of poetry by Missi McLaren.

    After doing several years of healing work on herself, the author speaks openly about being diagnosed as a manic bipolar at a young age.

    She reaches an extremely dark side in this collection and uses her poetry as therapy to promote her own healing. With wry humor and honest thoughts, she hopes that people will find the work relative to the struggles of anyone dealing with mental illness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMissi McLaren
    Release dateDec 26, 2011
    ISBN9781465892928
    Bi-the-Way
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    Missi McLaren

    Missi McLaren Ritter studied Writing, Literature and Political Science at Anoke Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids, Minnesota and St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. While in college, she wrote a monthly column for college students throughout Minnesota as the President of the Minnesota State College Student Association. She also wrote for her college newspaper, ARCC’s Salmagundi, where she was given an award from the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s annual Better College Writing contest for feature writing. Missi has been writing poetry since the age of 13. She speaks openly about being diagnosed as manic bipolar at a young age and she uses her writing as therapy. Chronicles of the Amazing Broken Girl is her first collection, published in 2010 by Sunbury Press, Camp Hill, PA. Her second collection, Bi-the-Way, was published by the author in 2012. In 2015, her 3rd collection, titled Low Fat Love Poems, was published by Poem Sugar Press, York, PA. She currently resides in York, Pennsylvania with her roommate April and their two children, Nicholas and Gabriel, affectionately known as Nicholapedia and Gabetionary. As well as establishing herself as a visual artist, she currently hosts a monthly poetry group at a local gallery and provides editing and publishing advice and services through her own business MMR Books and Art.

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