Vanessa M. Chattman 

East Orange, NJ, USA 

Vanessa M. Chattman was born in Newark, NJ. Her family moved to East Orange, NJ a few years later. She graduated from Clifford J. Scott High School in 1989. She served on Active Duty for four years and ten months. She deployed to Desert Storm in 1990 on December 13th. In 1993, she was stationed at Fort Ord, CA. While there, she attended a university that is originally located in Indiana. She completed a selective amount of general study courses. She is an active member of her church. Her current location is in Baumholder, Germany. She is married to a service-member and she's a mother to two small children at ages three and five years old. Her membership with The Writer's Digest Book Club has been active since 1997. Her poems have been published in three different anthologies. The poem "My House" has been published in "The Poetic Voices of America Anthology." The second poem titled "The Celebration" has been published in the "Beginnings" anthology. The poem titled "People" has been published by The National Library of Poetry and has received The Editor's Choice Award. I thank God for blessing me with this poetic talent. My poems are created from God and from trials and tribulations of life on a daily basis.

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