In four parts, Wounded Healers and other Frankensteins parallels the human beings maturing process, and gathers

fourteen written essays plus a photographic one related to topics such as marginalized persons undercurrent power. It takes monsters as a metaphor, since I believe their abnormal bodies reflect a clash between opposite aspects that fight inside or outside one. Reflection on a fictitious monster, our well known Frankenstein, originated a play that later gave birth to the book. It is not an adaptation of the play though, but rather is a sequel to it. Actually, it starts from my personal experience as an ex-dancer that became disabled because of a brain surgery. However, as it gets near its end, it contains more and more non-personal essays that express my belief that the integration of these forces heals and amplifies creativity and communication between people of different physicalities, as well as from diverse cultural and social backgrounds.

By Mari Guelta.