Brenda Taylor, 29
I wrote Beauty for Ashes. It's a memoir. I suffered abuse growing up in Cabrini Green and I married abuse. Finally I got out and my husband decided he was going to take my life, by strangling me and setting my body on fire.
But I am still alive and ticking! I have beautiful scars to prove that it's not just a story. It's real and it's happening every day.
I am supposed to go out and make a difference.