The idea to write this book was born out of my empathy for others who are suffering like I have after traveling so much during my youth and suffering from the emotional trauma of constantly being harshly bullied, to finally settling in New York City for many years, where I started volunteering for the Red Cross about ten years ago, which launched my whole career in translation and interpretation and made me start to write poems after living to survive cancer. | How Surviving Emotional Trauma and Cancer Later Helped Me in Life in Prose by Mario Fontenla, Paperback | Indigo Chapters