Roe, Gary: - Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief-recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for more than 30 years. Gary is the author of numerous books, including the award-winning bestsellers Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child, Heartbroken: Healing from the Loss of a Spouse, Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving, and Teen Grief: Caring for the Grieving Teenage Heart. Gary has been featured on Focus on the Family, Dr. Laura, Wellness.com, Beliefnet, CBN, The Daily Positive, Thrive Global, and other major media and has well over 500 grief-related articles in print. He is a popular keynote, conference, and seminar speaker at a wide variety of venues. A former college minister, missionary in Japan, entrepreneur in Hawaii, and pastor in Texas and Washington, Gary now serves as a writer, speaker, chaplain, and grief counselor with Hospice Brazos Valley in central Texas. Gary loves being a husband and father. He has seven adopted children, including three daughters from Colombia. He enjoys hockey, corny jokes, good puns, and colorful Hawaiian shirts. Gary and his wife Jen and family live in Texas. Visit Gary at www.garyroe.com.