Laraine Herring is a tenured professor of creative writing and psychology at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ. Her fiction has won the Barbara Deming Award for Women, and her nonfiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has volunteered for Hospice of the Valley, directed the New Song Center for Grieving Children's support group, worked with women in transitional housing and women recovering from addiction. Her work--whether it's her paid employment, her volunteer work, or her creative work--focuses on the power of stories to heal what's hidden within us.