Danielle Mongelli, an Italian American writer, poet, comedian, and teacher; has completed her new book “The Cure of the Heart”: a heartbreaking autobiography told in poems about how she was forced to endure the restrains of her insecurities and sorrow during her upbringing that left her broken for several years, long before she learns to embrace the pain and overcome it.

Mongelli writes, “The Cure of the Heart is a poetry book, completely equipped with Italian translations, about the life of a child overcoming and growing up in an Italian American household, with a parent who has been incarcerated since she was nine years old. It is based on true events and discusses the author’s personal experience with sexual assault, heartbreak, and insecurity issues.