Mary ThompsonMary Reynolds Thompson is a certified life coach and facilitator of poetry and journal therapy. Mary is the founder of Write the Damn Book and the creator of the Write the Damn Book coaching process. She serves on the faculty of the herapeutic Writing Institute and the Council for the International Association for Journal Writers. She lives in Novato, CA.

Lorraine Anderson grew up on a free-range chicken ranch in Cupertino, CA, in the days when the Santa Clara Valley was still known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. (It's now known as Silicon Valley.) She is editor of the nature anthology Sisters of the the Earth and teaches writing as an adjunct professor at Linn-Benton Community College in Corvallis, OR. Read More Read Less