Jane Rowan is a New England poet and writer. After teaching science for three decades in a private college, she retired to pursue the creative life. Her new memoir is The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse (Booksmyth Press, 2010). She is the author of numerous articles and the self-help booklet Caring for the Child Within�A Manual for Grownups, available through her website http://www.janerowan.com and through Smashwords.