Joan Goodreau

Another Secret Shared Joan Goodreau

"Joan Goodreau's poetry is alchemy. She spins pain into beauty. She is a word weaver of the highest caliber. This book takes you from her joy to her agony, and back again, but always the journey is exquisite, always the reader is enchanted. Another Secret Shared challenges us to view life through a different lens." -Claire Braz-Valentine, Poet and Playwright Another Secret Shared, Joan Goodreau's latest book of poetry, explores her family's life on the Autism Spectrum. A cancer survivor, she gives new perspective on diagnosis and treatment in the section "Open in the Back." In the "Reunion" section, she remembers her family who "come together at last." A Pushcart Nominee, Joan Goodreau recently published her memoir, Strangers Together: How My Son's Autism Changed My Life. Her stories, articles, and poems have appeared in numerous publications such as: Dalhousie Review, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Watershed Literary Magazine, The Broken Plate Literary Magazine, Floodplane Literary Review, Little Red Tree International Poetry Anthology, Telling Our Stories Anthology. A native Californian, she lived in England and Canada and now resides in Chico, California. Visit her at her blog: www.autismwritehere.wordpress.com.