Alley lives a quite existence in the North Georgia mountains of the United States wit her dog. She spends a great deal of time dealing with health issues. She has a liberal arts education. She is graduate of Manchester College with a Bachelor of Science degree. Her main fields of study were political science, communication, religion, and philosophy. The arts have always been her passion. She began reading at a very early age and often joked the Library was her babysitter. She is a true eclectic of the arts. Encourage by her Grandfather she picked up the artist pad at nine years of age. She study music for nineteen years and began writing in her early teens. She enjoys all forms of creativity. She has toured singing and playing in a band, She has acted and directed stage productions. She has been a radio d.j. and read children stories for radio children programming. She has won honors in debate, humorous interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, student congress, and poetry interpretation. She won a Westinghouse award for her work with electricity. She was the winner of the Delta Sigma Rho Tau Kappa Alpha Outstanding Speaker Award. It is only one of four awarded each year for the entire United States.
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IN a time when there seems to be an unbridgeable gap between the east and west, two writers have come together to show the world through art bridges are built.
THE EAST: Afghan, Afzal Shauq, highly respected author of poetry written in the Afghan language of Pashto. The collection of 333 poems expresses the feelings and experiences of the author and the Afghan people.
THE WEST: Alley Boling, from the United States, driven by her desire for the English speaking world to understand all people share the same feelings desires and dreams dedicated herself to translating Shauq's poetry.
IT is the writers' hope, though a TWIST OF FATES, may place us on opposite sides of the world, the art of poetry will bridge us together.
Half of all proceeds of this book are going to establish the Farishta foundation to aide the poor and suffering people of this world
