Who is Dorise Dixon

Getting to know the author

The Author:
Dorise A. Dixon
11/25/63
Fort Worth, Texas
JPS Hospital

Author’s Purpose of Life Poems:

To make history with this book
To encouraged the downtrodden
To motivate the weakened spirited person
To help people overcome certain fears
Help people realize their purpose
Promote love and unity amongst our
Assist in stirring up people’s gifts and talents
Promote inner healing and peace

Targeted Audience:

Both to men and women who may be experiencing difficulty in relationship(s) or life issues in general needing encouragements
Men and women who have been abused or mistreated as a child
People still dealing with past pains from child hood abuse or neglect
The average American who can appreciate great literature in the making, who wants to be apart of history in the making “Poetry the voice of Release”

Hobbies:

Writing and reading gardening, cooking, photography, traveling, horseback riding, fishing, hiking, biking and boating and love to dance and sing.

Interest:

To be a world renowned leader preaching & educating all over the world
To be the most famous female African American Poet of all times
Start a world wide ministerial church with multi purpose center
Obtain my PhD in Psychology or Christian Counseling
Own several types of business for community related purposes
Children’s camp for abandoned, abused and neglected children
Apartment complex for homeless women and children and a Women’s Mall
Dog breeding Pomeranians and Pit Bulls

Education:

Austin Community College, Associates in Business Administration
Strayer University (2 semesters)
American Intercontinental University, BBA

Employment Successes:
Worked my way up the corporate latter from receptionist in 1983 to Accounting manager over a period of 14 years promoted from client service specialist to Social Worker II in three years working for the Texas Department of Human Resources lead, train, mentor, counsel staff and employees.

Other Corporate American Titles Held
Notary Public for Texas and Georgia
Positions and titles held
Social Worker II
Project Manager
Bookstore Manager
Apartment (Resident) Manager
Accounts Receivable Manager
Collection and Credit Manager
Office Manager/Bookkeeper
Manager of Accounting
Teacher/Trainer for Goodwill
Seasonal Tax Preparer for HR Block & OHCO Services

Personal Successes:
Owned my own dress boutique (1994)
Help start Miracle Ministries Christian Church (1994-1998)
Choir Director/Praise and Worship Leader
Received my license to preach (Oct. 1998)
Licensed Minister on several church rosters
Started and Pastored Open Heart Christian Church (1999)
Started a desktop printing business 2001
Started a tax & bookkeeping service (OHCO Services) (2002)
Went back to school after 24 years (4/05)
Joined membership with The National Black Writers and Artist Assoc(12/06)
Became a Chair of the Board of NBWAA Association 8/26/07
Published my first book Life Poems (4/1607)
Copyright second book Sitting Solitary (2007)
First Radio Show Interview with Momma Nature(7/9/07)
Second Radio Interview to represent the NBWAA on The Mecca
Lounge.com(8/5/07)
Third Radio Show Interview for Life Poems on AM1480 (8/8/07)
Fourth Radio Interview for Life Poems with Twanda Black of KISS K104.5 (8/14/07)
Fifth Radio Interview for Life Poems Mike Payne on the Mecca Lounge.com (9/9/07)
Hosted my first Poetic event called Poetically Speaking (8/3/07)
Speaker at Domestic Violence event (9/8/07)
Wrote my first play called, Can You Stand The Pain (7/07)
Started on my first Novel based on a true story, called Still Missing (8/07)
Performed spoken word at Mocha Match Coffee House
Performed at Rev Coffee shop
Performed at Momma Nem’s
Hosting my third event at Caribou Coffee on Friday Nights
Hosting my fourth event at Mamma Nem’s on Saturday Nights
Performed at Take 2 restaurant in Stone Mountain

What is Dorise so adamant about everything she does, check out her testimony
Her Testimony
1. Sexually abused from 2-14 by step-father
2. Physically abused-bound & gagged and locked in a closet for hours at a time and
laid on the floor at night tied to the floor-post with a pillow over her face as foreign
instruments protruded her
3. Abandoned by her father
4. Rejected by her mother
5. Never knew who her real mother was until her teenage years
6. In and out of foster homes and juvenile detention for abandoned and
molested children
7. Homeless lived in parks, shelters and cars
8. Hooked on drugs and sex
9. Fondled by male relatives
10. In abusive relationships in which one resulted in a broken nose in two
places, broken teeth,
dislocated hip & knee and other bodily injuries to her neck
11. Emotionally and verbally abused
12. Robbed at gunpoint while at work
13. Gun held to her temple and knife at her throat by a close guardian
14. Almost drowned in the Pacific Ocean
15. Ran over by a car
16. Bedroom was hit by two cars that strayed off the road while she was in her
bed
17. Recently Dorise remarried after nine years in July 08, and was attacked by
her husband only 33 days after the honeymoon.


Most of these attacks occurred before she turned 15 years old and others during the course of her life.


But………. by the grace of God and the death and resurrection of her loved
Lord & Savior Jesus Christ and His shed Blood she survived and is healed
and delivered and is now ministering to many women all over the world
who have suffered some of these same onslaughts brought on by the enemy
of God. And through the Holy Spirit she is helping many break free in Christ Jesus. Praise be to God. my Abba! Thank you Jesus I made it because you live!!!!!!!!!!!!!