Writer, editor, and naturalist Sheila McEntee's essays have been featured in Stonecrop Review, The Brevity Blog, Still: The Journal, and Woods Reader, among other publications, and on West Virginia Public Radio. Sheila wrote for Wonderful West Virginia magazine for many years, and from 2006 to 2014 was that publication's editor. In Soul Friend, a number of her essays appear together for the first time. Raised in Cheverly, Maryland, and Hingham, Massachusetts, she is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.