I am More: Confronting the Aftermath of Sexual Assault

About the author

Devan Millsong chose a pseudonym because “small towns like to talk with big mouths about things they don’t understand, and people deserve a chance to move on.” Since moving on from her sexual assault and working through the healing process of putting a broken world back together, Devan spends her blessedly boring life as a mother of three in a rural town in Louisiana with the love of her life who was once the “boy down the street.” Devan has received several leadership awards throughout her career, is a freelance writer, and is active in the nonprofit world. She earned a bachelors in journalism, masters in journalism with secondary concentrations in public administration and speech communication, and a masters in education, but she will tell you none of that has anything to do with being smart. It mostly means she doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. Since the minute she could pick up a pencil and draw lines on paper, she has written poetry, short stories, journals, speeches, and random ideas. These days, she isn’t a little girl scratching lines on paper and calling it a story anymore, but she is no less ready to say, “Look, Mama! Look, Daddy! Look what I wrote.”