Book by Brooker, Barbara Rose "God Doesn t Make Trash" is a moving collection of stories about people with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers. -- Robert Rybicki, Executive Director, Shanti ...This book puts a face on the HIV crisis in an effective and humanizing way. -- Tom Ammiano, President, Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco ...provides moving first person accounts of what it is like to live with AIDS in a largely unsympathetic and homophobic world. -- James W. Dilley, MD, Executive Director UCSF AIDS Health Project God Doesn't Make Trash is a moving collection of stories about people with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers. -- Robert Rybicki, Executive Director, Shanti God Doesn't Make Trash promises to be a classic for the times to come. -- Lambda Book Report July/August 2001 God Doesn't Make Trash provides moving first person accounts of what it is like to live with AIDS... -- James W. Dilley, M.D., Exexutive Director, UCSF AIDS Health Project One of the most important books I ve ever read. The writing is superb and this deserves to be read by everyone. -- Bradley Bayou, Host of Operation Style/Lifetime Television Thanks for your contribution to society in your writing. This book puts a face on the HIV crisis... -- Tom Ammiano, President, Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco Whether you have been active in the struggle against HV and AIDS ... this book is essential reading. -- Mayor Willie L. Brown, San Francisco [A]n incredibly moving and important testimonial from an eyewitness to the devastation of AIDS; it is also incredibly beautiful. -- Fenton Bailey, Director and and Co-Founder of World of Wonder Film Productions Barbara Rose Brooker has a MFA in English Literature and Creative Writing. For the past several years she has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University's Extended Education, as well as nationally in public and private seminars. In 1988 William Morrow published her novel So Long, Princess. In 1989 the author's poetry was featured along with Maya Angelou and other Pulitzer award-winning poets in the anthology She Rises Like The Sun, published by Crossing Press, and her most recent poems are in an anthology published by Mangrove Press. From 1991-1993 she wrote the column "Buy The Bay" for the San Francisco Independent. Her column, "Suddenly, Sixty," appearing in the San Francisco Marina Times, is in the process of publication. She has published in local and national magazines and in October 1999, was featured on the lead story in Entertainment Tonight. Ms. Brooker teaches on and off line writing courses and seminars at OtherVoices.com, and is a public s! peaker on Releasing Creativity. She is in the process of forming free seminars on writing for men and women in recovery and has completed a new book, "Contemptuous Marigolds" which will be published Fall 2001. Other books by Ms. Rose are available at Xlibris.com. She is a SHANTI volunteer and hopes to establish a foundation, LastWords, a writing workshop for men and women who have HIV/AIDS. Used Book in Good Condition