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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney,interviews , Jean Trounstine, MFA, co-editor of Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes edited by Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine, published by Plume.
Jean Trounstine is an author, activist and professor of humanities at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts who has won many awards for her work. She wrote Shakespeare Behind Bars: the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison (St. Martin's, 2001) about directing plays in prison for ten years. She is co-founder of the women's branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an educational alternative to prison, and co-editor of a book by the same name (Notre Dame Press, 1999). She lectures frequently and has been featured on The Today Showe," "Voice of America," The Connection" and NPR. Her poem, "In the Mirror," was considered for a Pushcart prize and her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, The Southwest Review, Working Woman and many other publications. Visit her website.

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