Venera Di Bella Barles
In Her Own Words:
Just like many of us, I was born during the depression in upstate New York to Italian immigrant parents. At times, I encountered a difficult pathway from the hot-blooded upbringing with my authoritarian father, who had one foot in Italy and one in America. My childhood tribulations chewed directly into my spirit. The residue was overpowering.
I spent long years in search of answers to my fears, using humor to cover difficult circumstances; years to take responsibility for my own life; years to allay the anger in having to forfeit my childhood as the family referee; years before I understood my parents and could replace bitterness with forgiveness; years to find the love in all this disorder; years to recognize that the legacy that made me a peacemaker was not always a benefit. Peace at any price.
Woven amidst my long-term marriage
and two children, are a number of diverse work experiences, which added much to
my ‘school of hard knocks’ education. Getting maturity was the best thing for
this ole gal! I started writing after I retired from the different forms of
insanity and have never regretted a moment.
Birth Place: Albany, NY USA
Venera Di Bella Barles is a writer living on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and
an active member of the writing community. She has completed three books, one of
which is her memoir, Marriage, Kidneys, and Other Dark Organs. Her
latest book a Mainstream literary fiction about the the suicide deaths of three
elderly women living in a remote mining town, They Was Holdin Hands.
Venera also enjoys writing essays and short stories.
You may write to Venera at
venera@archebooks.com
Available From ArcheBooks Publishing:
They Was Holdin' Hands, Contemporary, ISBN 1-59507-065-6 Hardcover, ISBN 1-59507-066-4 eBook