Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the Poet Laureate of Kansas and the author or editor of 19 books. She founded Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College (where she teaches), a master's degree in using writing, storytelling, performance, singing and other words of language aloud or on the page for community building, personal transformation, culture shift and more. A long-time community writing workshop facilitator for many populations, she also leads Brave Voice (http://BraveVoice.com) writing and singing retreats with rhythm and blues singer Kelley Hunt, co-writes songs and performs collaboratively with Hunt. Her books encompass many genres: four collections of poetry, several anthologies of poetry and prose, an ecological memoir on cancer and community, a beloved writing guide for teens, and other works. Caryn makes her home just south of Lawrence, Kansas where the deer and no antelope (but many turkey) roam. Check out her blog about the writing life on the prairie: http://CarynMirriamGoldberg.com, and Transformative Language Arts at http://tlanetwork.org and http://goddard.edu/ma-individualized-studies/transformative-language-arts-concentration.