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    Maria Daversa's Biography

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    I was born and raised in New England. After high school, I attended an all-women’s college, earned a B.A. in social work and spent the next twenty years working in grass roots organizations with marginalized families. I’ve restrained gang members, reunited runaways with their families, and cried with victims of sexual abuse. In my forties, I went back to school and received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, was awarded a fellowship with Harvard Medical School, and ran studies exploring personality disorders, such as women with borderline personality disorder and prison inmates diagnosed with psychopathy.

    When I hit fifty, I decided to leave it all behind and return to my first love: creative writing. My dad once said as a three-year-old, I scribbled on a piece of paper and asked him what I wrote. I guess I had the writing bug even back then.

     

    I still have it.

    If you’re looking for me on social media, I’m most active on Substack, where I post monthly as The Sanguine Psychologist.

    I’m at my best in a pair of Levis, a t-shirt, and my hiking boots, and if I’m not at my laptop writing, I’m probably with my husband somewhere in the woods off Cape Cod walking our rescue dog, Bono. Or I might be baking (I love fresh bread right out of the oven). Or gardening (white climbers are my favorite). Or reading.

     

    Or writing my next novel.

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