Author Description

Even though Amy McCormick was paralyzed from the chest down from the age of 5, she lived life large, not letting her handicap define her limits. And she captured her life, her longings, her struggles, in poetry. This book collects her best poetry in one place, giving a beautiful glimpse into her life lived from a wheelchair. A metaphor for herself that she adopted was a mermaid: her legs could not walk, but she was as alive and vibrant as the sirens of the sea. Just in a titanium wheelchair.She was the Titanium Mermaid.