Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg:  earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Kansas.  She is the 2009 –2013 Kansas Poet Laureate and author of 24 books, including How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Mirriam’s Well, a novel; Needle in the Bone, a non-fiction book on the Holocaust; The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body.  She is the founder of Transformative Language Arts, leads writing workshops widely, coaches people on writing and right livelihood, and consults on creativity.