My Name Is Child of God.Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty

This personal and provocative look at poverty in America isshaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, andpoems, including the well-known Call Me Child of God ... NotThose People. The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholicworking-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, draws togetherthe experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church andmusic in her life, and the many remarkable people who populatedher life and the lives of her family.

The author describes economic hardship and social challenges asbeing as "regular as the turning seasons in my coming up years,"and refers to her life in poverty as the "soil of my art." Through herstories and reflections, Julia Dinsmore puts a face on poverty andchallenges readers to answer God's call to respond to poverty andits effects.

Julia K. Dinsmore is a freelance writer, storyteller, and singer/songwriter. As a child she lived in poverty and as an adult she has found herself living below the poverty line. Her riveting stories, songs, and poems reveal what it is like to be poor in America. Articulate, clear-visioned, and endowed with a marvelous sense of justice and humor, she makes frequent presentations to college classes, church groups, and civic organizations. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota