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Rebecca Fransway (born April 30, 1953) is an American author and
poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
. The author and editor ''12-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal & Abuse in AA, NA, and 12-Step Treatment,'' Fransway's poetry has been published in '' The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' and other literary journals.


Biography

Born in
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, Fransway was the oldest of six children born to Horace Robert Davis and Vernita Ethel Webster Davis. Growing up in California, she attended public schools in
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and
Atascadero Atascadero (Spanish for "Mire") is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, located on U.S. Route 101. Atascadero is part of the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses the extents of th ...
, and studied English at the
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in
Davis, California Davis is the most populous city in Yolo County, California, United States. Located in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California, the city had a population of 66,850 in 2020, not including the on-campus population of the University of ...
. She is the author and editor of a controversial book published in 2000, ''12-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal & Abuse in AA, NA, and 12-Step Treatment''. This book was banned in Davis bookstores and some U.S. bookstores because of complaints from treatment centers and members of local twelve-step groups. It is out of print, but is available for free online. As of 2006, she is writing a novel and screenplay. * ''12-Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal & Abuse in AA, NA, and 12-Step Treatment'', 2000,


Poetry

Fransway's poetry has been published in '' The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' and other literary journals. The poem "Suzanne Goes Down" is part of Fransway's ''Suzanne'' sequence of outlaw poetry, a type of marginal poetry with Beat sensibility often categorized as
Spoken Word Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an oral tradition, ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetic ...
. The poem was first published in 1996 by the literary magazine, ''Long Shot'', and again by Thunder's Mouth Press in ''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' (1999). The poem is a commentary on the usefulness of "AA meetings," foreshadowing Fransway's book, ''12-Step Horror Stories''.


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Rebecca Fransway's Poetry
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