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- Sarah’s Waterfall is a 2010 Mom's Choice Award book, a 2010 NAPPA Award book, and a 2009 Honor Award book from Skipping Stones magazine
Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story
New children's book about sexual abuse from Safer Society Press
“Sarah’s Waterfall is a wonderfully sensitive, honest, and poignant depiction of a child’s journey toward healing from the devastating impact of sexual abuse. It is a beautifully written, thoroughly readable story… A powerful, original and important resource…”
— Tammy L. Leombruno, M.A., LCMHC
The New England Counseling and Trauma Center
- Read more about Sarah’s Waterfall
- Sarah's Waterfall won a 2010 Mom's Choice Award in the Juvenile Books Self-Improvement Category, a 2010 NAPPA Award in the Parenting Resources category, and a 2009 Skipping Stones award in the Teaching and Parenting Resources category
- Sarah’s Waterfall is now available from Amazon or order from Safer Society Press at (802) 247-3132
Biography
Ellery Akers is a writer, artist, and naturalist living on the coast of Northern California. She received a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. from San Francisco State University.
Her collection of poems, Knocking on the Earth, from Wesleyan University Press (1989) was named one of the year's best books by the San Jose Mercury News. She has won nine national awards for writing, including the John Masefield Award, the Paumanok Award, and Sierra magazine's Nature Writing Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Orion, Harvard, The Sun, and many other magazines. Her nature essays have been published in numerous anthologies, including Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Ballantine). Her play, Letters to Anna, 1846-54, won a Dominican University One Act Play Festival Award in 2003.
Among her honors are fellowships from Blue Mountain Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and a grant from the Marin Arts Council.
She has taught at private workshops and at Cabrillo College, and has been on the faculty of writing conferences at Squaw Valley, Humboldt State University, Foothill College, and Skyline College. As a naturalist, she has led field trips for the Audubon Society, the College of Marin, and San Francisco State University.
An award-winning visual artist as well, Akers has exhibited her artwork in galleries and museums nationally, including the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Muscarelle Museum of Art.